Outline planning application with all matters reserved except access, for the creation of a phased new settlement and multi modal transport…

Official description

Outline planning application with all matters reserved except access, for the creation of a phased new settlement and multi modal transport hub, including safeguarded land to facilitate future access to the southern platform of West Horndon Railway Station. The new settlement would include a range of interdependent uses to create a sustainable new settlement including community uses (Use Class F1 & F2), primary school (Use Class F1), hotel (Class C1), commercial uses (Use Class E), general industrial & storage (Class B2 & B8), care home and Integrated Retirement Community (Class C2); mixed tenure residential development comprising up to 2,100 dwellings (Use Class C3), an active travel route over St Marys Lane road bridge, enhancements to the Freshwell Gardens underpass, open space and public realm; new planting and landscaping, ecological enhancement works; sustainable urban drainage systems; creation of new vehicular and pedestrian accesses into the site from the A128, creation of a new vehicular, pedestrian and cycle network within the site; improvements to the existing highway and local road network; lighting; engineering works, meanwhile uses and infrastructure and associated facilities and works, including demolition of all existing buildings on site.