Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 16021
Received: 13/05/2016
Respondent: Elizabeth Finn Care
Agent: Strutt & Parker LLP
Consider Plan will be found unsound due to duty to cooperate; objectively assessed housing need; Brentwoods housing growth strategy and the Sustainability Appraisal.
The following needs to be done to make the plan sound:
Review the current proposed number of homes to be provided 2013-2033 having regard to market signals and unmet housing need within areas with which the Borough is connected, to be determined through further working under the Duty to Cooperate with relevant Authorities.
Ensure that the Local Plan does not rely on the delivery of Dunton Garden Hills Village or windfall to meet housing needs, due to considerable uncertainty regarding their potential to deliver housing.
Reduce reliance on large strategic sites that will not be delivered in the short- term, and seek to address the current, urgent housing need through the identification of a range of smaller, deliverable sites in sustainable locations; and ensure the provision of a five-year housing land supply.
Apply a more sophisticated and transparent approach to site selection (and Sustainability Appraisal of potential sites) that considers the sustainability and deliverability of sites, along with their potential to relate to a spatial strategy for development linked to the settlement hierarchy.
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