Planning - Summary of all comments - Amazon Web Services

236 Mr & Mrs Beattie
Transport links must be able to accommodate extra cars when at work, there should be lunch/food/small shop facilities built
into industrial estates.
We should not be looking to bring more jobs to the area. This will simply encourage more people to move to an already
237 Mr Sanders
overcrowded area of Essex.
238 Gill Tilson Sorting out the water supply first could create jobs.
Jobs are mostly found in London with the areas being mainly dormitory. Local employment is available in and around the
towns. This situation should be maintained. Existing industrial sites are more than adequate as empty space is always
239 Ms S Martin
available for local business use without the need for any new sites to be found.
240 Mr & Mrs Beattie
Employment sites need to be close to accessible transport links, but taking into account any adverse impact onto existing
commuters. Existing industrial estates could be renovated and extended. Run down housing estates could be considered.
242 Mr D Batchelor Maplin Sands. Existing land estates should be used.
Too many people spend (waste) too much time travelling to their place of employment. It is important to have a good
variety of jobs within existing settlements. Where that is not possible good public transport links are vital. Many existing
industrial estates are suitable for new jobs/businesses, but council encouragement and support should be given, and grants
243 Adrean Lansdowne considered to promote local job creation.
245 M J Burpitt
Existing industrial sites should be expanded where ever possible and where appropriate redundant brown field sites should
modernised and be bought back into use by using commercial operators. Seedbed centres being a good example.
246 Miss M Saward There are plenty of empty business units on industrial sites. Use them first before you develop anymore.
247 Mr & Mrs Addison We should stop converting industrial sites into housing estates. Rebuild industrial sites into modern units.
A number of comments made in respect of 'housing' are also relevant to the Council's approach to 'jobs'. More specifically,
if 'Background Studies' conclude that it will be necessary to release land from the Green Belt to satisfy requirements for
employment generation during the plan period, the Council should take the same approach toward the identification of sites
ie consideration should be given to sites which are adjacent to the urban area including Southend-on-Sea and capable of
creating a clear defensible boundary, whilst promoting sustainable development by, amongst other things, utilising existing
or proposed supporting infrastructure. The flexible approach to Core Strategy Green Belt policy suggested in respect of
'housing' would also address matters regarding the potential need to release land during the plan period to satisfy
249 Mr I Hill
employment land requirements.
Business parks, trading estates, retail centres exist. Some expansion may be appropriate. A certain amount of commuting
252 F Harrison
to places outisde the district is likely.
253 Mr M J Smith Existing industrial estates.
We should be looking at existing areas. There are many derelict buildings which are left. This should be either improved or
replaced. In Southend for example there are so many empty work premises and buildings perhaps people/companies
require help or encouragement to improve these rather than building new huge buildings. For example look at all the empty
254 Ms V Stanesby offices on Victoria Avenue and then look at the new offices being built elsewhere - a waste of space.
255 Mr S Chilton Further development of existing industrial estates and brown field sites not being efficiently used is the way forward.
We support the number of jobs being proposed at Southend airport and Rochford Business Park, and it is clear that a
strategy for job creation needs to be integrated with both the growth of housing and services, in order to encourage short
257 Mr T Dodkins
journeys between such uses.