Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14976
Received: 26/04/2016
Respondent: Ursuline Sisters
Agent: JTS Partnership LLP
Question whether such development can realistically be delivered within the plan period. Cooperation with Basildon DC seems to have fallen away, with Basildon DC promoting, under Policy H10a & 10b of their Draft Local Plan part of that previously identified land.
The approach taken by Basildon raises the question of whether the much greater area and housing numbers promoted by Brentwood Council under Policy 7.1 can be delivered within the plan period.
The overall approach would represent piecemeal development. That part promoted by Brentwood Council would be largely isolated from the proposed West Basildon Urban Extension, and it is not clear whether there is any cooperation between the Boroughs in promoting these different parcels of land or whether there is any likelihood of a new train station being viable in this location. This throws considerable doubt on whether such new development is deliverable, and in a way that is self-sustaining and meets the principles of Garden Villages. Thus serving to undermine the Housing Growth under Policy 5.2, and places even greater emphasis on delivering other identified sites within the urban area and any other suitable land currently not identified (windfall sites) in the urban areas, of whatever size, which can be delivered and make a contribution to housing supply.
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