Policy DM6: Areas Allocated for General Employment and Office Development
Comment
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Representation ID: 274
Received: 01/10/2013
Respondent: Essex County Council
Essex County Council is supportive of the intention to seek to retain B uses, including general industry, on identified employment sites/estates. However, the same protection should also be provided to `sympathetic' sui generis uses such as waste management facilities. ECC would seek to amend the policy to read:
`Planning permission will be refused for the redevelopment or change of use of business, offices, general industry (and sympathetic sui generis uses) and distribution sites.....'
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Object
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Representation ID: 359
Received: 23/09/2013
Respondent: Stondon Massey Parish Council
Stondon Massey Parish Council objects to vacant allocated employment land at Hallsford Bridge Industrial Estate. Instead this site should be used to provide a group of homes for elderly people with on-site medical support and constant care.
Stondon Massey Parish Council has questioned the development of the three plus hectare site situated close to Hallsford Bridge into a commercial site rather than a residential site for affordable homes.
Following discussion, Stondon Massey Parish Council has an alternative suggestion having studied the Brentwood Borough Council Local Plan document.
PROPOSAL:
That the site is used to construct a group of homes for elderly people with on-site medical support and constant care.
ADVANTAGES:
- A facility for Brentwood residents where the life expectancy is increasing.
- A facility that would enable elderly residents to leave their current property which could be used to cover the growing Brentwood Borough housing need.
- A facility that provides local employment caring for the residents.
CONCLUSION:
Stondon Massey Parish Council has concluded that this proposal covers many of the issues addressed in the Brentwood Borough Council Local Plan and hope that the proposal will be considered.
Support
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Representation ID: 395
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: JTS Partnership LLP
JTS generally supports this policy. however we consider that the Council has omitted a number of sites which are currently being used for employment purposes and that, accordingly, this part of the policy needs to be reviewed.
We fully support the Borough Council's decision to reallocate a number of existing employment sites for alternative development (such as the Wates Way Industrial Estate), where the proposed alternative use(s) make more efficient use of the land and helps satisfy the shortfall in housing land.
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Object
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Representation ID: 496
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: West Horndon Parish Council
Agent: SJK Planning
8. Development would result in the loss of a local employment generator with no clear indication as to how this might be replaced.
Proposals involve the redevelopment of some 16.23 hectares of employment land. An important question is whether existing local businesses can be relocated on nearby sites, or as part of the new development. Otherwise local employment will be lost.
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Object
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Representation ID: 570
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc
Agent: McGough Planning Consultants
The Strategic Allocation at West Horndon includes a requirement for about 5ha of employment land. However, should only the industrial estates come forward as part of the LDP process, it makes sense to review the figure for the total amount of employment, including the retain employment elements, on a pro rata basis. Hansteen consider that the policy would be more robust if it were framed to allow some flexibility in the event the Green Belt land does not come forward.
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Comment
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Representation ID: 647
Received: 25/09/2013
Respondent: Threadneedle Property Investments Ltd
Agent: Barton Willmore
Our client seeks Brentwood Council's agreement that the 5 hectares of new employment land (as part of the West Horndon Strategic Allocation) is not identified on the Policies Map on the West Horndon Industrial Estate site, but located on a new site that benefits from much better access to the A127 and M25. This would make much better sense from a highway network, infrastructure and accessibility point of view.
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Support
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Representation ID: 722
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: S Walsh and Sons Ltd
Agent: JTS Partnership LLP
S Walsh & Sons Ltd generally supports the objectives underlying the Policy which it generally considers to be NPPF compliant.
The Company does, however, request that their site at East Horndon Business Park is considered as a site allocated for general employment, either as existing or as a preferred allocation.
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Comment
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Representation ID: 834
Received: 27/09/2013
Respondent: Mrs Angela Going
Agent: John H. Bayliss & Co.
Request that if land fronting Warley Street, near Great Warley (site ref: 082), is deemed to not be appropriate for residential development as part of the Local Development Plan process, that the south side of the site be considered for B1, B2 and B8 class development. A site plan is attached.
In addition, an old barn on site could be converted to provide a substantial country dwelling.
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Object
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Representation ID: 952
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: Bolson's Limited
Policy DM6 provides that the Council seeks to achieve and retain a wide range of employment opportunities (including the proposed new allocation at West Horndon). Para 4.17 states that in areas allocated for general employment and office development on the (draft) Policies Map, the presumption is that existing uses will be retained and proposals entailing loss of employment premises an sites without replacement will be resisted. (The estate is currently allocated as Employment General land in the extant 2005 Local Plan: see the Proposals Map). The current proposals do not appear to apply to Bolsons.
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Support
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Representation ID: 1113
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: Childerditch Properties
Agent: Strutt & Parker LLP
Whilst the existing allocated employment land at Childerditch Industrial Park is supported. The policy and preferred Allocations fail to acknowledge, or even to have conderation for the opportunity offered by land at the Range North.
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