Core Strategy Preferred Options document - Amazon Web Services

Strategies, Activities and Actions – Economic Development
ED4 Future Employment Allocations – Preferred Option
We will allocate land to the south of London Road, Rayleigh to
accommodate a new employment park, and work with partners to
secure its delivery. It will have the following characteristics:
• Able to accommodate employment uses displaced by
residential redevelopment
• Be suitable for high-quality office and industrial development
• A versatile layout and design that can accommodate a range of
uses and can be adapted to meet changes in the economy.
• Accessible by a range of transport options
• Good links to the A130 and A127
We will also encourage the development of employment generating
use within existing settlements, particularly town centres, where
appropriate.
ED4 – Alternative Options
Option Why is it not preferred?
Allocate specific
employment types to
specific land areas in
order to ensure uses
match local skills.
Seek to concentrate
future employment
uses within existing
settlements.
Alternative location for
additional employment
land to the west of
Rayleigh.
Eco-Enterprise Centre
Such an approach is considered far too
inflexible and unlikely to be implemented by
businesses. In addition, it would not allow
employment uses to adapt to changes in the
economy or changes in local employment
needs.
We consider it unlikely that an adequate
number of jobs can be provided within
existing settlements. In addition, some
forms of employment use, particularly
industrial uses, are inappropriate within
residential areas.
The preferred location is felt to be well
related to the existing highway network and
residential areas, without being so close to
residential areas as to have a negative
impact on amenity.
Enterprise, or business incubation, centres provide an ideal structured
environment in which new businesses can grow. They differ from other
types of business support because they offer comprehensive, responsive
and custom services to early stage businesses at the most vulnerable
point in their lifecycle. Additionally, quality support can be delivered at
varying degrees to a greater number of businesses.
The resources made available through an incubation or enterprise
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Although the District
relies on a greater
than average
proportion of
manufacturing jobs
and this is the sector
which is shrinking the
most due to changes
in the economy,
Rochford District
contains specialist
manufacturing which
continues to perform
well.
The leading authority
for business incubation
in the United Kingdom
is UKBI and they
define incubation as “a
unique and highly
flexible combination of
business development
processes,
infrastructure and
people designed to
nurture new and small
businesses by helping
them to survive and
grow through the
difficult and vulnerable
early stages of
development." (© UK
Business Incubation
Limited 2008).