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Having read your draft plan, I find it very difficult to reconcile proposals for the brownfield land within Brentwood urban area.
1. Wates Way, Western Road and William Hunter Way are situated within a stones throw of each other, in the most congested part of town. Here, there is a proposal to construct an estimated dwelling yield of 425. These sites between them have a comparable developable area to The Drive (2.38 ha), yet the dwelling yield there is only 123. That is approximately three times fewer in a comparable area.
2. The two proposals for Shenfield (Crescent Drive and the Eagle and Child pub) equate to a gross site of 1.78 ha and a developable area of 1.63 ha. Despite this sizeable area of land, only 75 dwellings are proposed. This is a much larger area than the William Hunter Way site, where the dwelling yield is estimated at up to 300.
3. Of sites with a similar or greater developable area as William Hunter Way, the estimated dwelling yield is substantially smaller, with Crescent Drive only expecting a dwelling yield of 55 and the council depot (whose area is much larger than William Hunter Way) expecting a dwelling yield of just 123.

I understand the need for development and housing. I would like for my children to be able to be residents of Brentwood should they wish. However, I simply do not understand these figures. They are anomalous. Too much development is being concentrated in too small an area which happens to be in the centre of the most congested parts of the town. Shenfield appears to very limited development proposals. Why is there such a concentration of development in the centre of town? The William Hunter Way site simply does not have the capacity for a dwelling yield of 300. Why are the dwelling yields in other areas much smaller by comparison? Can you please explain this? It does not appear to add up.