Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 12610
Received: 24/04/2015
Respondent: Barwood Land and Estates Ltd
Agent: Chilmark Consulting Limited
Dispersed development at the edges of villages and small settlements (irrespective of greenfield or previously developed) does not always offer an optimal approach to ensuring the creation of sustainable communities.
There is merit to making provision for new development in existing villages to specifically support rural housing needs and ensure the future for existing services and facilities; however such provision should be limited in order to respect the character and scale of those smaller settlements and to avoid unsustainable patterns of movement. Larger, higher order settlements such as Brentwood, offer the greatest opportunities to meet local housing, economic and service needs in a wholly sustainable manner. Growth should be toward the higher order settlements and to identified sites, (site 022) that are capable of delivering sustainable development early in the plan period.
See attached questionnaire.