Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14283
Received: 11/04/2016
Respondent: J M Gillingham
* Transport
The ability of existing transport corridors to accommodate growth needs careful and transparent examination rather than just being stated. Whether they can absorb focused growth any better than local roads could accommodate a more dispersed growth in traffic or need for other infrastructure is unsupported.
The A127 and A128 are extremely busy and at times over capacity with traffic delays at the junction with Station Road, East Horndon. Additional traffic on these roads generated by a large development could not be accommodated without road widening on the A127 and A128 and junction improvements. Whatever the situation this remains unsupported in the evidence base to the Plan.
The location of the Dunton Hills Garden Village is adjacent to the boundary with Thurrock and very dependent of the A128 for connections to the south, but there is no evidence of cooperation with Thurrock.
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