A 90-bedroom hotel and large restaurant will look to attract customers to a new business park in Rochford.

The airport business park, off Cherry Orchard Way, is expected to create more than 7,500 jobs, mostly through industrial and high-tech businesses on the site, which is due to be completed by 2021.

And planning documents reveal a 90-bedroom hotel and either a retail or restaurant unit, with 151 car parking spaces are also planned for the site, which has been christened Saxon Business Park.

But local councillors have raised concerns about congestion on Southend roads as a result of sizeable development, which has been dismissed by Henry Boot Developments, which is funding the majority of the £150million works.

Independent Ron Woodley, leader of Southend Council, said: ““The airport business park is an ambitious development which has the capacity to create thousands of jobs locally.

“It is still, however, a little premature to sign up occupiers to the development. We are working on several leads with our development partner, Henry Boot and will work up a marketing strategy further along in the planning process.”

Henry Boot Developments has previously signed up Travelodge and Premier Inn to hotel developments on its sites in Richmond Upon-Thames and Malvern respectively.

And the developer hired Vectos as transport consultants to assess how the park would affect local roads, but they concluded all junctions in the area would be able to take the extra traffic.

However, they did admit roundabouts in Eastwoodbury Lane and Nestuda Way may struggle to cope, but this would not be down to the business park, blaming it on “background traffic”, going elsewhere.

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Mark Flewitt - concerns

St Laurence Tory councillor Mark Flewitt has said he fears traffic will be backed up on the stretch of Eastwoodbury Lane from Nestuda Way to St Laurence Church Hall.

And as the planning application will be discussed by Rochford Council, as the park falls on their land, he fears concerns in Southend could be overlooked.

He said: “Because it is a Rochford application, they might just be going “hurrah, jobs and business”, and not think of the congestion it could cause.

“We would not be doing our residents justice if we did not say we see a problem here.

“The developer needs to explain what mitigation should be put in place for this.”

Mr Woodley responded, and said: “The greatest volume of traffic will be from the A127, so we upgraded the Tesco roundabout and Nestuda Way roundabout last year to better manage any increased traffic levels.”