No to overdevelopment on Honeypot Lane, Brentwood - 2025

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🚨 Major Development in the Honeypot Lane Planning Application 🚨Essex Highways have now submitted their formal response t...
18/06/2026

🚨 Major Development in the Honeypot Lane Planning Application 🚨

Essex Highways have now submitted their formal response to the proposed 150-home development on Green Belt land west of Honeypot Lane and have recommended that the application be REFUSED.

This is a significant development because Essex Highways are the statutory authority responsible for assessing the safety and suitability of the road network.

Their concerns include:

🚗 Inadequate visibility at the proposed access points.

🚗 The impact of additional traffic on the narrow section of Honeypot Lane.

🚗 Increased risk of vehicles mounting the pavement, a concern regularly raised by local residents.

🚗 Concerns regarding the applicant’s traffic modelling and assumptions.

🚗 Potential impacts arising from the proposed highway arrangements.

Most importantly, Essex Highways conclude that the impact of the proposal is not acceptable to the Highway Authority.

For months, residents have been highlighting concerns about road safety, congestion, pedestrian safety and the suitability of Honeypot Lane for a development of this scale. It is encouraging to see many of those concerns reflected in the professional assessment of the authority responsible for our roads.

This does not mean the application has been refused, and there is still a long process ahead. However, it is a very important step and demonstrates that concerns about the proposal extend far beyond local opposition.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted comments, shared evidence and supported the campaign so far. We will continue to review the application and keep residents updated as further consultee responses are received.

Many residents will have seen the serious rollover accident on Honeypot Lane yesterday.First and foremost, I hope everyo...
29/05/2026

Many residents will have seen the serious rollover accident on Honeypot Lane yesterday.

First and foremost, I hope everyone involved is okay.

The accident happened immediately adjacent to the pinch point and next to the field proposed for the 150-home development. While the cause of the collision is a matter for the police and emergency services, the photographs show a vehicle that appears unlikely to have been travelling at the 20mph speed limit when it overturned.

Residents have raised concerns about speeding on Honeypot Lane for years. Despite being a residential road with a narrow pinch point, limited visibility in places, pedestrian activity and existing traffic conflicts, it is not uncommon to see vehicles travelling significantly faster than the posted limit.

This latest incident highlights just how vulnerable the road can be when things go wrong. A single vehicle was able to completely block the carriageway and require a major emergency response.

As part of our planning objection to the proposed Honeypot Lane development, supplementary evidence relating to this incident is being submitted to the Council. The purpose is not to speculate about the cause of the crash, but to highlight the existing sensitivity of the road network and the concerns many residents already have regarding highway safety, speeding, congestion and emergency access.

If you share these concerns, please consider submitting your own comments on the planning application. Individual submissions do make a difference, particularly when they highlight genuine local issues and lived experience.

Planning Application: 26/00350/OUT
Land West of Honeypot Lane, Brentwood

Brentwood Liberal Democrats

Despite the council stating that neighbour notification letters were sent to surrounding properties, based on conversati...
17/05/2026

Despite the council stating that neighbour notification letters were sent to surrounding properties, based on conversations we have had locally, many residents say they never received a letter. Because of this, local residents have been going door to door and spreading awareness themselves to make sure people know what is happening.

The 21 day consultation notice was posted on 1 May, meaning the consultation period is now coming to an end next week.

We encourage EVERY member of every household to submit comments on the planning portal. Individual comments matter, and the more residents who respond, the stronger the community voice becomes.

These proposed new builds will impact everyone through:

• Increased traffic and pressure on local roads
• Strain on GP surgeries, schools and public services
• Added pressure on local infrastructure
• Changes to the character of our local area

Please share this post with neighbours, friends and local community groups across Brentwood and Shenfield.

💻 Submit comments here:

https://publicaccess.brentwood.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=TCGI54DJKI700

17/05/2026

🚨 Brentwood & Shenfield Residents 🚨

There are only a few days left to submit your comments on the planning application before the deadline closes on 20 May 2026.

If you are concerned about these proposed developments, now is the time to speak up.

We encourage EVERY household to submit comments on the planning portal. Individual comments matter, and the more local residents who respond, the stronger the community voice becomes.

These large scale new builds across Brentwood will impact all of us through:

• Increased pressure on local roads and traffic
• Strain on GP surgeries, schools and public services
• Added pressure on local infrastructure
• Loss of green space and changes to the character of our area

Please also share this post with neighbours, friends and local community groups across Brentwood and Shenfield.

Today we will be out leafleting locally to hopefully spread the word to residents that haven’t seen the notices put up. It’s a shame that letters weren’t sent out like they usually are if your neighbour was building an extension.

🗓 Consultation deadline: 20 May 2026

💻 Submit comments via the Brentwood planning portal:

This photo shows my measurement of the Honeypot Lane pinch point. I measured approximately 3.10m across at the narrowest...
14/05/2026

This photo shows my measurement of the Honeypot Lane pinch point. I measured approximately 3.10m across at the narrowest section.

To be clear, nobody is claiming the developer created this existing bottleneck. Honeypot Lane has always been constrained. The concern is whether it makes sense to add a major new T junction and significantly more traffic onto a road that already operates as a narrow single lane section with vehicles regularly having to give way to each other.

The road cannot realistically be widened. On one side there are existing houses and driveways, on the other side are the allotments. The physical constraints are obvious to anyone who uses the road.

What makes this more concerning is that the developers’ own transport documents do not even give one consistent set of figures for the narrowing:

Transport Assessment Part 1: minimum width 3.4m, approximately 67m long.

Transport Study: minimum width 3.1m, minimum section 40m, remaining widths between 3.3m and 3.75m.

Transport Assessment Part 4: approximately 170m of single carriageway.

Transport Study: approximately 250m described as narrow with “shuttle lane working”.

Highway plans: a location shown as 4m.

So which is it?

Many of us have been referring to the pinch point as 4m because that is what appears on one of the plans. But even within the developers’ own proposal documents, the measurements and descriptions change.

If the pinch point is one of the key transport issues in this application, people deserve clear and consistent information.

The question is not whether the road is already narrow. The question is whether adding more traffic to an existing bottleneck, with limited room for meaningful widening, is really the right solution.

Please share and keep asking questions.

🚨 Honeypot Lane — This Is No Place for a Junction or 150 Houses 🚨This is the exact spot where the developer wants to put...
12/05/2026

🚨 Honeypot Lane — This Is No Place for a Junction or 150 Houses 🚨

This is the exact spot where the developer wants to put the new southern access for the proposed 150-home estate. Turn right and you hit the pinch point on Honeypot Lane. Turn left and you're heading down to Weald Road.

To show you just how narrow this road is, I've safely parked my car across the full width of it. That's how wide this "busy new" T-junction will be, but in practice it will function as a three-way conflict point. And the pinch point further down? Even narrower. 😳

This is a country lane, with open fields either side that give this whole area its character. It's the reason so many of us love living here. Sticking a 150-house estate access right here would:

🚗 Cause serious tailbacks and congestion. There's simply no room for the extra traffic
⚠️ Create a dangerous conflict point where cars already can't pass each other safely
🌳 Urbanise a road that has always had a countryside feel
🏡 Permanently change the character of Honeypot Lane, and you can't get that back

You cannot squeeze a housing estate junction onto a single-track country road and pretend it'll work. The road can barely cope as it is. Adding hundreds more daily vehicle movements here isn't "sustainable development" — it's a recipe for daily gridlock and accidents waiting to happen.

Honeypot Lane is special because it's still rural.

Once it's gone, it's gone. 💔

📩 Please object to planning application 26/00350/OUT before it's too late.

Every voice counts.

The proposed southern access point would be located directly in front of the second car shown in this photo. This image ...
10/05/2026

The proposed southern access point would be located directly in front of the second car shown in this photo. This image clearly demonstrates the danger and disruption that could result. Honeypot Lane already operates as a constrained single-track section, and if vehicles are travelling in both directions while another vehicle exits the new access, the road would quickly become blocked. This would create a serious three-way conflict point, increasing the risk of congestion, reversing movements, pavement mounting and collisions. This supports the highway safety concerns already raised.

To add your voices, please do so by 21st May. Every voice makes a difference. Link below

https://publicaccess.brentwood.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=TCGI54DJKI700

NIMBY - That word gets thrown around far too easily whenever local people stand up to inappropriate development.But prot...
08/05/2026

NIMBY - That word gets thrown around far too easily whenever local people stand up to inappropriate development.

But protecting Green Belt land isn’t selfish. It’s about protecting the environment, wildlife habitats, flood resilience, and the character of the area for future generations.

The land west of Honeypot Lane is not empty or unused land. It forms part of an important green corridor supporting wildlife, mature vegetation, watercourses, and ecological connectivity across the area.

Even the developer’s own documents acknowledge ecological constraints and surface water flood risk affecting parts of the site.

Once habitats are destroyed and open countryside is lost, it cannot simply be recreated overnight with landscaping plans and spreadsheets promising “net gain” years into the future.

This proposal would urbanise a sensitive Green Belt site and place further pressure on an already constrained area.

Protecting wildlife, countryside, and the remaining separation between Brentwood and the expanding London urban edge is not obstructionism.

The developer's Green Belt assessment is geographically selective to the point of being misleading.

It focuses on the distance between Brentwood and Epping to argue the site doesn't contribute to preventing settlement coalescence. Epping is miles away. The risk was never Brentwood merging with Epping.

What the assessment conveniently ignores is that the London Borough of Havering is just 2.5 kilometres from this site. Havering is part of Greater London. The urban edge of Harold Hill is visible from the A12.

The whole point of the green wedge policy is to prevent Brentwood gradually merging with London. This site sits directly in that buffer. The developer's assessment pretends Havering doesn't exist because acknowledging it would destroy their argument.

The Council should not be fooled by selective geography.

The risk was never Brentwood merging with Epping. What the assessment conveniently ignores is that Havering is just 2.5km from this site. Havering is part of Greater London. Harold Hill is visible from the A12.

It’s common sense.

We are past the petition stage for this development. It is now with the councils planners to make a decision whether to pass or reject the proposal. Please take the time to submit your comments on the planning portal before the consultation deadline of 21st May

https://publicaccess.brentwood.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=TCGI54DJKI700&activeTab=summary

🚨 SAY NO TO THE HONEYPOT LANE DEVELOPMENT 🚨The proposed 150-home development on Honeypot Lane is completely unsuitable f...
07/05/2026

🚨 SAY NO TO THE HONEYPOT LANE DEVELOPMENT 🚨

The proposed 150-home development on Honeypot Lane is completely unsuitable for this area and residents have serious concerns about the long term impact on our community.

Key objections include:

❌ LOSS OF GREEN BELT
This is protected Green Belt land that acts as a vital green wedge between Brentwood and Greater London. Building here would permanently destroy open countryside and wildlife habitat.

❌ TRAFFIC & ROAD SAFETY
Honeypot Lane already struggles with congestion, flooding and dangerous pinch points where cars mount pavements to pass. Adding hundreds more vehicle movements will make the situation far worse and increase danger for pedestrians and children.

❌ SCHOOL & GP SHORTAGES
Local schools are already oversubscribed and GP surgeries are under huge pressure. The council’s own infrastructure reports admit there is no new school or healthcare provision planned for this area.

❌ FLOODING & DRAINAGE RISKS
The site already suffers from drainage issues and feeds into Weald Brook. Residents fear increased flooding and long term strain on local water systems.

❌ DAMAGE TO WILDLIFE
The fields support badgers, bats, birds and important ecological corridors linked to the River Ingrebourne and protected SSSI wetlands. Once these habitats are lost, they cannot truly be replaced.

❌ NOISE & AIR POLLUTION
The site sits next to the A12 and already experiences heavy traffic noise and pollution. The proposal would remove mature trees that currently help shield nearby homes.

❌ UNSUSTAINABLE LOCATION
There are no bus routes through Honeypot Lane, poor walking and cycling infrastructure, and residents would be heavily dependent on cars.

Brentwood already has a five year housing supply. There is NO justification for sacrificing this important Green Belt land.

Please make your voice heard on the planning portal before it’s too late. Comments need to be in by 21st May.

Planning Ref: 26/00350/OUT

https://publicaccess.brentwood.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=TCGI54DJKI700

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