AMBITIOUS plans to create 6,200 jobs on new business parks around Southend Airport have been rubber-stamped.
Southend Council has approved the final version of its joint area action plan - a blueprint drawn up with colleagues at Rochford District Council to set out the future of land around the airport.
There has been comment on the internet about traffic gridlock on the main roundabout outside the airport which is stopping passengers getting into the airport as shoppers head into and out of the adjoining retail park but who can’t find any parking spaces. The word chaos has been used to describe the jams which are getting worse as Christmas approaches. Once Christmas is out of the way it will be the January sales but apparently it is not only this time of year there has been problems.
Now there are plans to create 6,200 jobs on a new business park close to the airport. Together with extra passengers using the airport is the airport going to become a problem airport to get to by car or can anything be done to make the road access better?