101B Land at Codham Hall (including M25 Works Site at A127/M25 junction 29)
Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 5081
Received: 17/02/2015
Respondent: Cllr Jill Hubbard
Due to previous lack of planning enforcement, many businesses now operate at this site which should never have been allowed. The site is out of sight and the owner has benefited from this in the past but I strongly object to all the businesses operating out of the former farm buildings, (storage, vehicle repair etc.) Nothing can be done about them because historically they have "got away with it" but I object to any further encroachment on the fields surrounding the businesses which is happening currently with cars parking on fields turning them eventually into so-called brownfield sites. This is green-belt land and the encroachment of industry should never have been allowed to go as far as it has. (The extent of this can be seen by using Google satellite images)
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Support
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 12311
Received: 17/02/2015
Respondent: S & J Padfield and Partners
Agent: Strutt & Parker LLP
In order to deliver a net increase in employment provision as requested by the NPPF and set out in the Brentwood Economic Futures Report (2014) it is especially important that the current extent of employment use at Codham Hall North is formally allocated for employment purposes. This will provide certainty for existing businesses at the site and assist in reducing the overall need for additional new employment sites in the Borough.
See attached plan indicating the extent of existing employment uses. The proposed allocation should be drawn to accord with this area.
I write on behalf of S & J Padfield and Partners with regards to the above consultation and site 101B at
Codham Hall (north of the A127).
Our comments particularly relate to chapter 4 of the consultation document concerning Economic Prosperity and consultation question 7. Question 7 states that "To enable future employment need to be met do you agree that the most sustainable approach is to allocate new sites close to the strategic highway network?"
The allocation of employment sites in proximity to the strategic highway network and to the M25 and A127 is supported.
As noted in the plan the site at Codham Hall currently provides for valuable provision for employment to meet needs within the Borough. The references on page 22 of the Strategic Growth Options Consultation is therefore supported which states: "101A Proposed as Brentwood Enterprise Park in the 2013 Preferred Options, this land presents an opportunity to provide a new business park for the Borough and meet the majority of unmet employment need. Alternative sites would not meet this need together and so an alternative piece of land would need to be identified if this site were not to come forward."
This approach is reflected in the update to the Council's Economic Futures Study carried out by Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners (December 2014) which provides important evidence on this topic. The NLP report notes at paragraph 4.5 that "proposed new employment site allocations 101B (Brentwood Enterprise Park) and 108 (The Old Pump Works, Great Warley Street) have existing employment uses on site and therefore do not represent additional land supply". In order to deliver a net increase in employment provision as requested by the NPPF and set out in the NLP report it is therefore especially important that the current extent of employment use at Codham Hall North is formally allocated for employment purposes. This will provide certainty for existing businesses at the site and assist in reducing the overall need for additional new employment sites in the Borough.
I attach a plan indicating the extent of existing employment uses and we would request that the proposed allocation is drawn to accord with this area.
Object
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 12722
Received: 17/02/2015
Respondent: One Property Group Ltd
Agent: Phase 2 Planning and Development Ltd
Site is poorly located in terms of access by non-car modes and employees will make trips by car. Given the presence of existing uses, this site is likely to be slow to come forward as these uses will need to relocate in advance of redevelopment.
See attached.