£450,000.00: SAVED.

(and permission granted for Office Headquarters and Care Home in Ingatestone)

As much as all highway engineers and transport planners love modelling, designing and building new junctions, this one was simply unnecessary…

…and, in successfully removing the need for the signal junction, we saved the development a hefty bill.

We are celebrating planning permission being granted for a new 70 bed care home including office headquarters in Ingatestone, Essex.

Award-winning care home operator, Hallmark Care Homes, now have permission to build a new 70-bed flagship care home and a new office complex, to include a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for training their care team.

With this challenging site, the applicant team had to balance the physical constraints and the competing needs of the various disciplines,

Initially, National Highways and Essex County Council required that the development deliver a £450,000+ signal junction intervention to the A12 off-slip, identified as part of the local plan.

However, via a Transport Assessment, Travel Plan, pedestrian and public transport user access design, a Walking Cycling Horse Riding Assessment Report (WCHAR) and two Road Safety Audits…

…Connect demonstrated that the permission should be granted without the signal junction, at a significant saving to the development.

Paul Brailsford, Head of Planning and Environment at Freeths, commented: “This has been a real team effort with Freeths working closely with Karen Green and Martin Casey at Hallmark, John Bell at ADG Architects and Harry Flexman at Connect Consultants, amongst others, to secure planning permission for this landmark development on a former Green Belt site. An excellent result!”

…and we couldn’t agree more

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(image courtesy of ADG Architects)