My comments are at this stage focussed on transport, though I have views on a lot of the document, I cannot list everything in one email.

I have got to say that in general I am somewhat underwhelmed by the entire document - there appears, to me, be very little ambition shown.

I am available as a consultant to assist you with this, either as a third party contracted to yourselves, or as a paid member of the AECOM team (though I would not be going to Bristol to talk to them about Rayleigh's issues).

Some specific areas:
No mention made of maintaining existing cycle infrastructure - a great many cycle paths are unusable due to the fact they are covered in broken glass and other harmful detritus.
No suggestions for new, safe, cycle lanes.
regarding the roads, you seem to ficus almost entirely on one B road. Yet the Rayleigh Weir continues to be a mess, the A129 into Rayleigh is also a mess and something needs to be done, for example looking at the intersection of Eastwood Road with the A129 and also looking to make the Rayleigh high Street pedestrian / cycle friendly.
The A127 fortune of war roundabout and other foolhardy ideas need taking out to allow the arterial traffic to flow better (appreciate that the FoW roundabout is in Basildon, but we need to flag this up).

Renewable energy - this is only fleeting mentioned. Being a rural area we could be doing so much more with biomass / district heating / solar and maybe wind farms. Nothing appears to have been considered to any depth in this report.
The comment that electric vehicles should be considered in the next plan is derisory, plans should be developed now to place EV charging points at prime locations within our town centres to encourage EV take-up. The council should also further support plug-in car grants through fleet purchasing, making a proportion of the fleet available to local residents at low rates. EV transport is an evolving area, and I think you need a consultant here with better insight.