Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15973
Received: 13/05/2016
Respondent: Herongate and Ingrave Parish Council
Do local planning authorities have to meet in full housing needs identified in needs assessments? Local authorities should prepare a Strategic Housing Market Assessment to assess their full housing needs. However, assessing need is just the first stage in developing a Local Plan. Once need has been assessed, the local planning authority should prepare a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment to establish realistic assumptions about the availability, suitability and the likely economic viability of land to meet the identified need for housing over the plan period, and in so doing take account of any constraints such as Green Belt, which indicate that development should be restricted and which may restrain the ability of an authority to meet its need. Revision date: 06 10 2014.
Clearly Brentwoods Green Belt does 'restrain the ability of an authority to meet its need'.
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