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I note that the committee has worked hard to identify potential development sites for housing inter alia.
My concerns lie within your "site constraint" paragraphs. While you identify very serious constraints such as parking, wildlife and woodland sites, conservation areas, and surface water flood risk, the implication is that you will, nevertheless, need to use these sites in order to meet your targets.
There is barely sufficient convenient parking space at present to attract people into the town centre rather than driving to out of town shopping sites, so, attractive as the current parking sites are for potential housing development, you need to retain town centre parking areas.
As for building on the station parking area, with its recognised danger of causing railway line flooding, unless the solution is extensive subterranean parking with subway access to the station, and a built-in drainage reservoir, I fail to see how Brentwood's potential and existing rail travellers are going to find Brentwood an attractive proposition.
I will also mention that your primary school predictions are already out of date as it has been acknowledged that Holly trees primary school cannot grow and that Warley primary school will need to grow to 420 pupils to account for the shortfall. I also understood that there was a need to build another primary school within the town in order to accommodate the growing and potential pupil numbers but I can find no site allocation for such a school with its requisite recreation grounds and fields.
Finally, I acknowledge the commitment to providing powering stations for the electric cars of the future. I do hope the facilities will predate the necessary influx of theses eco cars!