Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 16965
Received: 16/05/2016
Respondent: Countryside Properties
Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd
The DLP should include full and realistic targets for the growth of homes and jobs in line with the latest government guidance. The Council should proceed swiftly to ensure a plan is in place by 2017 if it wants to avoid intervention by the government. The Local Plan for Brentwood should consider full OAN for market and affordable housing, which now needs to reflect the government's latest initiative towards building 400,000 affordable homes, of which 50% should be starter homes. To cater for such initiatives and meet new 'delivery tests' that are proposed in further reforms, the Plan must look to higher targets than previously considered. It must include an up to date supply of specific deliverable sites to provide a rolling five-years worth of housing plus an additional buffer of 5% to 20%. (Those plans found sound at examination and referred to in the NLP report tended to show an extra 20% provision of new homes above the household projections)
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