Comment

Representation ID: 5467

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Thurrock Council considers the role and potential economic and housing benefits of Crossrail in particular with regard to development at Shenfield have not been fully assessed and incorporated into the emerging Brentwood Local Plan either as part of the Brentwood Preferred options or the most recent Growth Options Strategy. The NPPF states that in preparing their plans local authorities should support opportunities for growth, therefore the housing and economic impact of Crossrail within Brentwood needs to be considered and assessed in detail. The role and development of Brentwood and Shenfield as a terminus of Crossrail should be thoroughly investigated and its potential role to accommodate further growth over the period of the local plan and beyond. The implications of the potential to accommodate more growth and associated infrastructure requirements need to be considered with some weight as a way of meeting the undersupply of housing requirement currently identified in the Brentwood Local Plan options and supporting evidence.

Comment

Representation ID: 5468

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

There is also an objection to the lack of a published detailed evidence base assessing the transport impacts of the various spatial strategy options and a detailed housing, economic and transport assessment of the impacts of Crossrail and with particular reference to Shenfield. It is understood that the technical assessment is being undertaken.

Comment

Representation ID: 5469

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The A12 widening and delivery of Crossrail will bring about significant increased capacity and accessibility improvements to transport infrastructure for Brentwood in the A12 Broad Corridor during the later-part of the plan period. This will make the A12 Corridor broad area more suitable for development opportunities.

Comment

Representation ID: 5470

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The recently published Road Investment Strategy and Autumn Statement of 2014 identify the Government committed to start the widening of the A12 (north of Chelmsford) and M25/A12 junction improvements. The widening of the A12 from the M25 to Chelmsford will follow in the next Road Period. These schemes represent an increase in road capacity and the opportunity to improve road junctions and accessibility to Brentwood and the A12 Broad Location Area generally during later period of the plan.

Comment

Representation ID: 5471

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Thurrock Council is fundamentally opposed to any large scale Strategic Green Belt releases either at Dunton Garden Suburb or West Horndon as options put forward in the Brentwood Local Plan consultations and the Dunton Garden Suburb consultation. The assumption that the A127 has greater potential for growth is questioned.

Comment

Representation ID: 5472

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The strategic growth options document identifies there are several options for development of brownfield land and Green Belt release at West Horndon. Thurrock believes brownfield redevelopment and a limited Green Belt release north of West Horndon as indicated by sites (referenced site 37) represents a suitable scale of housing development in this location.

Comment

Representation ID: 5475

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Thurrock Council remains concerned about the lack of detail on location, delivery and phasing of development in this location. Thurrock Council requests that more detail is provided as to how such a release is to be achieved and incorporated into a more formal Green Belt review process and Local Plan consultation.

Green Belt release along the A127 corridor in any of the proposed locations would result in harm to the openness and strategic function of the Metroplitan Green Belt. In this location the Green Belt prevents urban sprawl and prevents coalescence between Basildon and West Horndon. Other greenbelt releases taken together with strategic releases would have an even greater cumulative impact on the openness of the greenbelt.

Comment

Representation ID: 5477

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The A127 is at capacity and does not represent a better road transport alternative to the A12. Any larger development is going to require additional road infrastructure investment to improve access. There is limited public information currently available in order to consider highway capacity impacts at this stage.

Comment

Representation ID: 5478

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The Government is currently giving further consideration to Options A and C for the future Lower Thames Crossing. This includes assessing a wider corridor for the route of Option C. Any assessment of development proposals at Dunton Garden Suburb or West Horndon will need to take account of the emergence of options for the Lower Thames Crossing and any possible northern route for Option C that extends along a M25/A127/A128 corridor.
A northern path for the route of option C could improve accessibility to the national network for development if links are provided to the A127 and A128. Howeverdepending on the location of the preferred route it may have implications for development proposals in terms of land take south of the A127 and west of the A128 and could result in higher levels of noise and pollution.

Comment

Representation ID: 5479

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The Brentwood Plan and supporting evidence identifies the requirement for additional employment land. It is not always the case that employment land should be located at busy junctions or along the A127 corridor where it would add to traffic flows on a road at current capacity. Alternative locations and options should be investigated including the A12 corridor possibly as part of edge of settlement expansion and in mixed use schemes.