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6.3
Representation ID: 3755
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
The borough is well served by rail with two lines and 10 stations in the borough. Is there a way that can be found of utilising these stations as hubs for starting points for more sustainable transport modes? Potentially including park and ride and increased cycling.
Enhanced cycle lanes to encourage more cycling would also have multiple benefits including on health and wellbeing and reduced emissions from vehicle use.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
The borough is well served by rail with two lines and 10 stations in the borough. Is there a way that can be found of utilising these stations as hubs for starting points for more sustainable transport modes? Potentially including park and ride and increased cycling.
Enhanced cycle lanes to encourage more cycling would also have multiple benefits including on health and wellbeing and reduced emissions from vehicle use.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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6.4 Provide for park and ride facilities to serve Southend. Where do you think these should be and in what format
Representation ID: 3758
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
For park and ride to be effective there needs to be an advantage for the buses over the cars competing for road space.
The Borough does not have the space to add bus lanes onto existing routes, therefore there would need to be redesignation of a current lane into a bus lane.
The optimum route to make this happen is on the A127, so a site for a car park would need to be identified somewhere between Rayleigh and Southend and a bus lane introduced from there to the Victoria interchange. This could potentially force people out of their cars if the service and travel experience provided by the bus is superior to the experience of remaining in the car.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
For park and ride to be effective there needs to be an advantage for the buses over the cars competing for road space.
The Borough does not have the space to add bus lanes onto existing routes, therefore there would need to be redesignation of a current lane into a bus lane.
The optimum route to make this happen is on the A127, so a site for a car park would need to be identified somewhere between Rayleigh and Southend and a bus lane introduced from there to the Victoria interchange. This could potentially force people out of their cars if the service and travel experience provided by the bus is superior to the experience of remaining in the car.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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6.5 How do you think technologies such as the internet, electric and driverless cars will affect how we travel by 2038
Representation ID: 3762
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
The internet and technological advances should reduce the need for people to commute to office based jobs , so we were surprised to see the anticipated need for increased office space into the future reported by the EDNA in section 3. The Council’s experience is that we are currently consolidating our space requirements.
Electric cars are going to become more prevalent and eventually the norm, although the more that we can provide genuinely effective alternatives to reliance on the car through effective public transport that meets people’s needs, the better this will be on a range of outcomes.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
The internet and technological advances should reduce the need for people to commute to office based jobs , so we were surprised to see the anticipated need for increased office space into the future reported by the EDNA in section 3. The Council’s experience is that we are currently consolidating our space requirements.
Electric cars are going to become more prevalent and eventually the norm, although the more that we can provide genuinely effective alternatives to reliance on the car through effective public transport that meets people’s needs, the better this will be on a range of outcomes.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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7.1 Continue to promote improved and new areas of public realm. Do you think priorities should be established as to where this should take place
Representation ID: 3764
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
The town centre should be the initial priority for improvements to the public realm.
Improvements implemented must address the challenges posed by climate change of increased temperatures and more intense rainfall.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
The town centre should be the initial priority for improvements to the public realm.
Improvements implemented must address the challenges posed by climate change of increased temperatures and more intense rainfall.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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7.2 Require high quality landscape design and tree planting in new developments. Do you think priorities should be established as to which areas of the borough should be subject to streetscape upgradi
Representation ID: 3766
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
The Local Plan should require high quality landscape design and tree planting in new developments.
The town centre should be the initial priority for improvements to the public realm.
Improvements implemented must address the challenges posed by climate change of increased temperatures and more intense rainfall.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
The Local Plan should require high quality landscape design and tree planting in new developments.
The town centre should be the initial priority for improvements to the public realm.
Improvements implemented must address the challenges posed by climate change of increased temperatures and more intense rainfall.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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8.3 Should we require open space and play areas as part of new development schemes. Do you think in appropriate cases this could be provided in an offsite location
Representation ID: 3768
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
Yes – open and green space will be an important part of new development schemes.
Open and green spaces should not be provided in offsite locations as they would then not be directly accessible to people’s living space and therefore their daily lives.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
Yes – open and green space will be an important part of new development schemes.
Open and green spaces should not be provided in offsite locations as they would then not be directly accessible to people’s living space and therefore their daily lives.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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9.2 Seek to enhance the boroughs network of green infrastructure using developer contributions for the management of green and open spaces and introduction of pocket parks
Representation ID: 3770
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
Yes – the Local Plan should be signalling the importance of the green infrastructure and that developers will be required to incorporate this into their proposals when they bring them forward, particularly in respect of climate change challenges of increased temperatures and more intense rainfall.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
Yes – the Local Plan should be signalling the importance of the green infrastructure and that developers will be required to incorporate this into their proposals when they bring them forward, particularly in respect of climate change challenges of increased temperatures and more intense rainfall.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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9.3
Representation ID: 3776
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
Working with adjoining local authorities is critical to achieving a suitable overall response to the combination of challenges that the future poses for the Borough in respect of all the issues being addressed by the Local Plan.
A new country park could bring a variety of benefits and contribute towards delivery of a number of 2050 outcomes (including Green City). Delivery of this will require working together with adjoining local authorities to deliver on the strategic infrastructure requirements, particularly if the increase in housing numbers is going to be delivered and if the new settlement is seen as the optimum way of delivering this.
However we would regard having suitable green space integrated with all development as more important than having one designated green space in the form of a country park.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
Working with adjoining local authorities is critical to achieving a suitable overall response to the combination of challenges that the future poses for the Borough in respect of all the issues being addressed by the Local Plan.
A new country park could bring a variety of benefits and contribute towards delivery of a number of 2050 outcomes (including Green City). Delivery of this will require working together with adjoining local authorities to deliver on the strategic infrastructure requirements, particularly if the increase in housing numbers is going to be delivered and if the new settlement is seen as the optimum way of delivering this.
However we would regard having suitable green space integrated with all development as more important than having one designated green space in the form of a country park.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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10.2 Require mitigation and adaptation measures to deal with the increase in average temperatures and greater rainfall, including tree planting and urban greening
Representation ID: 3777
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
Yes – the Local Plan must signal the importance of addressing the challenges posed by future climate change and require developers to play their part in meeting these challenges.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
Yes – the Local Plan must signal the importance of addressing the challenges posed by future climate change and require developers to play their part in meeting these challenges.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
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10.3 Support renewable and low carbon energy schemes, including photovoltaic (PV) panels, biomass plants and electric vehicle charging points
Representation ID: 3778
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
Yes – the Local Plan must signal the importance of addressing the challenges posed by future climate change and require developers to play their part in meeting these challenges.
If there is to be a new settlement then this should aim to be energy self-sufficient through the use of renewables and potentially a local heat network.
Other new development should also seek to be energy self-sufficient through renewables to reduce the impact on the already challenged energy distribution network.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
Yes – the Local Plan must signal the importance of addressing the challenges posed by future climate change and require developers to play their part in meeting these challenges.
If there is to be a new settlement then this should aim to be energy self-sufficient through the use of renewables and potentially a local heat network.
Other new development should also seek to be energy self-sufficient through renewables to reduce the impact on the already challenged energy distribution network.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
