Object
Brentwood Local Plan 2016 - 2033 (Pre-Submission, Regulation 19)
Representation ID: 22206
Received: 04/03/2019
Respondent: Mrs Concetta Hudson
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Traffic considerations are unsound and dangerous.
The negative impact of increased traffic movements and traffic flow on Priests Lane has been inadequately represented in the plan.
Effects of increased pollution from traffic in an area where there are two schools has been ignored.
Priests Lane site should be removed from The Local Development Plan
Unsound
Traffic Assessment did not take into account Priests Lane therefore did not address concerns regarding school and work traffic, which is very bad both ends of the day. The transport assessment did not include projections of increased traffic from A127 on to Priests Lane due to new local pain housing allocations or the arrival of the Elizabethan Line.
Priests Lane was not designed to be a main distributary road however it has become so and this will only get worse with this development.
The junction of Middleton Hall Lane and Priests Lane is a pollution hotspot, provision for how to deal with increased pollution has not been considered.
The road design is dangerous for increased traffic flow as the pavements are not wide enough bearing in mind many children walk up and down priests lane to school.
The development adds traffic to an already traffic and pollution heavy area. This has not been mitigated in the policy set out by the council.
Access points to the site from Priests Lane are dangerous.
Of great concern is the fact that the site of in a Critical Drainage Area and yet there is no independent report on solutions regarding drainage of the site before or after construction.
For all the reasons above the site does not meet conditions of sustainability particularly with concern to transport and traffic or its affect on health due to increased pollution.