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Located in the heart of Essex, Brentwood is an attractive location for business, combining a high quality environment with close proximity to London and a well qualified workforce with a population of 77,000.
Positioned by the M25 just outside the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), A12 and A127, located on the TfL Elizabeth line Greater Anglia line and C2C line, Brentwood borough is perfectly connected and acts as an ideal base from which to visit Essex and London.
There are two TfL Elizabeth line stations located in the borough – Brentwood and Shenfield (terminus). Trains run every 10 minutes directly through to West London via London Paddington to London Heathrow Airport.
There are around 200 direct weekday trains into London in as little as 25 minutes on the Greater Anglia line and 30 minutes on the C2C line.
Shenfield is also a convenient transportation hub offering routes to other parts of Essex and East Anglia.
The airports of London Stansted, London City and London Southend are a 30-minute drive away. The Dartford Tunnel and Tilbury Docks are also within easy reach and Harwich and Felixstowe are 90-minutes’ drive.
Brentwood has a diverse economy providing almost 40,000 jobs.4,200 business, of which 90% are micro businesses, create a thriving entrepreneurial culture with above average rates of business start-ups.
The largest business sectors in the borough are financial, insurance, health and social work, retail and construction.
Key businesses in the area include Sky, Liverpool Victoria, Crest Nicholson and Countryside Properties.
The borough has a good mix of shops, schools, employers and recreational facilities. The town centres of Brentwood, Shenfield and Ingatestone are surrounded by leafy, open countryside.
Brentwood is also home to the first Business Improvement District (BID) in the UK to incorporate three separate high streets. In October 2022, the Brentwood Connected BID secured a significant £2m to be spent on improving the area over a 5-year period. Over 500 businesses across multiple sectors will benefit from events, projects and initiatives that increase footfall, dwell time and perception of the area.
Brentwood is a thriving borough that welcomes a wealth of business and culture. We have a proactive attitude to growth that maintains the spirit of our borough’s character – the reason why so many people choose to live and work here.
The council has adopted a local plan for the borough that meets our future growth needs to deliver around 8,000 new homes and employment land over the next 15 years. We will enable a minimum of 5,000 new jobs to be created by 2033. Dunton Hills Garden Village, the first garden village in South Essex, will provide 4,000 new homes and supporting services and facilities, along with integrated employment opportunities and new business parks for research and design.
The Council has granted planning permission for four major industrial units, providing some 112,000 sqm of employment floorspace near junction 29 of the M25. Known as ‘Brentwood Enterprise Park’ the site will deliver a significant investment in infrastructure locally including some £77 million on M25 junction 29, the B186 Warley Interchange, improved walking and cycling links and improvements to bus services. It is envisaged that the Enterprise Park will create 1,580 construction jobs and the equivalent of 2,660 new jobs when occupied.
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