Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15625
Received: 10/05/2016
Respondent: Basildon Borough Council
Work on the South Essex Strategic Housing Market Assessment has included a re-assessment of the South Essex Housing Market Area to ensure it is still appropriately defined. In defining Brentwood as a single housing market area, the current Brentwood SHMA does state that 'data suggests that Brentwood shares a housing market area with Chelmsford and Basildon and to a smaller extent Epping'. It therefore recognises that overlaps with surrounding housing market areas exist. As the proposals within the Brentwood Draft Local Plan propose a strategic housing site for 2,500 homes within close proximity of the Borough boundary shared with Basildon Borough Council, there may be implications for the future definitions of the Brentwood and South Essex housing market areas, which need to be given further consideration as the Brentwood Local Plan is progressed towards submission. Basildon Borough Council would be pleased to be engaged in such work in order to understand the implications this proposal would have for both the Brentwood and South Essex housing markets, and the extent to which development in this location would meet the needs arising from both housing market areas.
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