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Highways & transportation Comment -
Transport Assessment required to fully assess the impact on the A127 and A128. Brentwood needs to be aware of and acknowledge the A127 Corridor for Growth proposals one of which is to widen the A127 to 3 lanes. This will require land to both north and south of the corridor and therefore land should be safe guarded in the local plan to accommodate this future highway improvement.
Consideration must be given to how residents of the new village will access nearby railway stations using sustainable transport.
Good connectivity to the larger towns and employment opportunities via network of cycle paths should also be provided.
Development throughout this site will need to be viewed from a holistic perspective to ensure that it contributes to a pool of funding to provide an enhanced level of bus service to serve the 4000 homes planned. It will also be important to ensure that the design layout of the site facilitates sustainable access, ideally with bus gates or other interventions designed to maximise such access whilst giving these modes a journey time advantage.