Comment

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.....'

Object

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.

Support

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.

Object

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.

Object

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.

Comment

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.

Support

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.

Comment

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.

Object

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.

Support

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.