Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15709
Received: 11/05/2016
Respondent: Hatch Road Neighbourhood Association
In addition to the sites ability to deliver the spatial strategy the sites have also been assessed against criteria, including (but not limited to) the following:
* whether sites are suitable for housing;
Recent relaxing of government policy on the building of houses of Green Belt Land is aimed at small scale sites to encourage starter homes and selfbuild opportuinities and not the general building on Greenbelt land just because it is there.
All land is invariably suitable for development, whether housing or otherwise. The question which should be asked in this instance are:
Should Green Belt Land be built on in circumstances where the result will be the removing of the last area of Green Belt Land between Brentwood Town and it's Urban Sprawl and the loss of Pilgrims Hatch geographical separation from Brentwood Town's urban sprawl.
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