Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15946
Received: 12/05/2016
Respondent: West Horndon Parish Council
6.18 of the Draft Local Plan states that "In order for a scheme to be acceptable development will be required to make satisfactory arrangements for vehicular, cycle and pedestrian access into the site and for parking and servicing within the site". At present, the sites are served by a small entrance placed in a hazardous location below a blind hill created by the railway bridge, opposite the station, and on a busy road. Traffic is already considered dangerous in this location. Any redevelopment of the sites will need to be able to show an improvement in road layout safety, together with appropriate access consideration (one entrance/exit will be insufficient for size of proposed development). This point is repeated in Policy 6.4a of the Draft Local Plan: "Development proposals will be favourably considered where the planning and design of buildings and spaces - arrange access points, routes within the site, public and private spaces, building forms and ancillary functions in an efficient, safe, workable, spatially coherent and attractive manner".
See eight attached documents