brentwood.gov.uk

A major concern with any plan to expand Brentwood is road capacity. The plan recognises the above average car usage in the area. Realistically this is not going to change. The plan, as it stands, seems to hint at encouraging alternative transport usage. This is totally unrealistic and can only help at the margin.

The plan MUST include a RADICAL proposal for ROAD TRANSPORT to be implemented ahead of any further residential or commercial building.

Brentwood's roads are already grossly overcrowded at times and existing schemes to improve traffic flow have, in my view, been a complete failure. This particularly true of the use of William Hunter Way as the main route through town. You are now proposing to make WHW even busier without, it seems, any thought how car and commercial vehicle traffic can be accommodated. Shenfield is even worse and Crossrail will only encourage more traffic from beyond the area.

More radical action is needed, for instance, direct access to the A12 directly from the A128 would substantially reduce the need for many vehicles to go through Brentwood to reach the A12 and M25. The A12 also needs 3 lanes.

Please cancel the consultation until the road plan is available, otherwise the only comment can be 'it won't work with the current road system'.