The phrase "and significant development in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing progress or advancements in a particular field or area of study.
Example: "The research team reported on the and significant development in renewable energy technologies."
Alternatives: "and notable progress in" or "and important advancements in".
Clearly, the ability to instantly gather the firsthand accounts of so many individuals near the site of any breaking-news event is a huge and significant development in the way we generate and take in the news.
But by publicly raising the issue of the money gap, Brown may have inadvertently touched on a new and significant development in the fight for LGBT equality: a steadily decreasing appetite among the right wing, especially among small donors and the conservative grassroots, to support anti-LGBT initiatives.
"It only happens to be one of the most important and significant developments in international transport... How many experts were there on international high speed rail?
In 1932 the museum established its biennial, an invitational exhibition that continues in the 21st century and features current trends and significant developments in American art.
Addressing one of the most spectacular and significant developments in the current cultural scene, Kissing Architecture is an entertainingly irreverent and disarmingly incisive book that offers an entirely new way of seeing--and experiencing--architecture in the age after representation.
While there have been considerable and significant developments in knowledge capture and representation in product design, it is useful to sometimes review our position in the area, study the evolution of research in product design, and from past and current trends, try and foresee future developments.
Bernanke promises his book "will have a broader scope than anything previously written on the crisis, will not be limited to events in the United States, and will discuss both the lead-in to the crisis and significant developments in the world economy since 2009".
Additional molecules targeting protein kinases are in clinical trial [ 3, 4], and significant developments in this field are expected in the next few years.
