Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 16134
Received: 16/05/2016
Respondent: Countryside Properties
Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd
site. Transport consultants to Countryside Properties have assessed the location for the DHGV and find that the land proposed as a strategic allocation cannot be accessed (Full report of Odyssey Markides is attached at Appendix 3). Without land in Basildon Borough, there is insufficient land to create a new grade separated junction onto the A127. Furthermore, access from the A128 is constrained by issues of flooding in the western part of the site. Even if issues of flooding could be overcome a scheme of the size proposed would need three to four access points which could not feasibly be positioned on the same road. They would also have an unacceptable traffic impact on the A128. In terms of visual amenity and landscape character we refer to the report of Crestwood Environmental which finds that development at Dunton would have a harmful impact on this area of open countryside.
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