The Council will support health related proposals which support the role, function and operation of Broomfield Hospital. This includes the provision of a loop road to allow bus, service and emergency vehicles easy access into the full body of the estate; optimising access by public transport; strengthening the network of pedestrian routes and spaces to aid safety, comfort and convenience; concentrating buildings of scale and mass within the central core of the estate; limiting the scale and mass of buildings at the edge of the estate; ensuring a phased and coherent strategy for removal of temporary buildings and their replacement with permanent structures; protecting and enhancing woodland, parkland, trees and hedgerows; minimising environmental impacts including in respect of ecology and water quality, and creating high quality public spaces. New development proposals at Strategic Growth Site 8 - North of Broomfield, to the north of the Hospital, will incorporate a new vehicular access road from Main Road (B1008) providing the opportunity for the Hospital to extend this road across land to be safeguarded within the Hospital campus ensuring successful integration with the existing internal road network of the Hospital.

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