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I have lived, studied and worked in Brentwood since 1963, and have seen significant changes to the town , some to be celebrated and others to be objected to.
The latest version of the Draft LDP clearly details the pressure on Brentwood to play its part in addressing the national shortage of housing and set out to demonstrate 'how' our town can play iots part.

The Draft LDP document under the heading "Preferred Site Allocation" details the potential of sites across the town for housing development.
I do not understand why the Hutton area appears to be unable to offer up any suitable sites for substantial development .?

I am generally supportive of the proposed sites , especially the increased number of dwellings on the William Hunter Way site, and would encourage a further increase in dwellings on this site.

PROBLEMS OF TRAFFIC GENERATION
However I do have a number of concerns arising from the scale of the overall developments ,
For example : Westbury Road Car Park is listed as having the potential for 45 dwellings , possibly houses . If each house owns 1 car, potentially it will bring an additional 90 movements onto an already over worked road network,.
Some of the larger developments ( excluding Dunton Hills Garden Village 2,500 to 4000)
e.g. Officers Meadow for up 510 dwellings would possibly bring up to 1000 traffic movements per day

Objections to the Draft LDP concerns the lack of detail concerning the massive increase in traffic that will be generated when all these new dwellings are built.
In reading much of the full Draft LDP I found many gaps in the information or missing statistics that may have answers my Objections , but despite the "expert" language used , it is light on content concerning proposals as to how BBC will address the Traffic Issues.
Surely until the problems of additional traffic generation are resolved, development of these sites should be held in abeyance .