Highways & Transportation Comment -
The impact of development on the A127 / A128 interchange is required. The proposals to improve the A127/A128 junction include widening / realignment of slip lanes for which land may be required. Therefore this area should be safeguarded.
Consideration must be given to how residents will access nearby railway stations using sustainable transport.
Good connectivity to the larger towns and employment opportunities via network of cycle paths should also be provided.

Highways & transportation Comment -
Transport Assessment required to fully assess the impact on the A127 and A128. Brentwood needs to be aware of and acknowledge the A127 Corridor for Growth proposals one of which is to widen the A127 to 3 lanes. This will require land to both north and south of the corridor and therefore land should be safe guarded in the local plan to accommodate this future highway improvement.
Consideration must be given to how residents of the new village will access nearby railway stations using sustainable transport.
Good connectivity to the larger towns and employment opportunities via network of cycle paths should also be provided.
Development throughout this site will need to be viewed from a holistic perspective to ensure that it contributes to a pool of funding to provide an enhanced level of bus service to serve the 4000 homes planned. It will also be important to ensure that the design layout of the site facilitates sustainable access, ideally with bus gates or other interventions designed to maximise such access whilst giving these modes a journey time advantage.

Highways & Transportation Comment -
Development on this site will need to be viewed from a holistic perspective to ensure that it contributes to a pool of funding to provide an enhanced level of bus service to serve the 825 homes planned. It will also be important to ensure that the design layout of the site facilitates sustainable access, ideally with bus gates or other interventions designed to maximise such access whilst giving these modes a journey time advantage.

Economic Comment -
ECC is supportive of bringing forward new high quality employment areas, which can create a genuinely new offer for Essex. However ECC have significant concerns about the deliverability of the site (see earlier comments in this Appendix).
BBC could be exposed to significant risk in terms of achieving employment land targets. If this site is delayed or fails to deliver, given that the next largest new commercial allocation only accounts for 12% of the overall target.
Consideration needs to be given to both private and public transport links to the town centre and other key areas in order to ensure there is an adequate supply and access to skills/talent to support potential jobs created by the site.
Concerns that this out-of-town development is the only sizeable proposal for job creation, with little commercial space remaining in/near the town centre, what alternatives are proposed if this venture is not successfully delivered?

Economic Comment -
Significant concern about the potential loss of a key local employer (Ford) if site is lost to residential.
Brentwood has already lost BNY Mellon, EMoov in the last year.

Economic Comment -
Consideration should be given to including site as part of the DHGV (ref 200), to support the creation of a comprehensive masterplan.

Economic Comment -
Master planning is required in conjunction with neighbouring LPA's, and in the context of emerging South Essex 2050 vision.

Historic Environment Comment -
Opportunity: Former Iron Works site could provide opportunity for promoting the history of this former industrial production

Historic Environment Comment -
Constraint: Archaeological potential for the historic core of Brentwood

Historic Environment Comment -
Constraint: Archaeological potential for the historic core of Brentwood