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The Review lacks an allocation of urban brown land for housing to attract older Brentwood residents from houses that have become too big for them. This shortage of downshift-suitable housing is most noticeable in Shenfield, where once-numerous bungalows and smaller houses have been bought up and much-expanded by younger households.

The closure of the Bloodbank in Crescent Drive, midway between Brentwood and Shenfield, offers a rare opportunity to add downshift-appropriate houses to the Shenfield housing mix and, by recycling a number of the Bloodbank buildings, to create downshift-appropriate apartments as well.