Object
Brentwood Local Plan 2016 - 2033 (Pre-Submission, Regulation 19)
Representation ID: 23671
Received: 19/03/2019
Respondent: M Scott Properties Ltd
Agent: Strutt & Parker LLP
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
There is a long process before development on larger sites can begin, which render their ability to come forward quickly uncertain; therefore, it is totally unrealistic to project that 100 homes will be completed at Dunton Hills Garden Village as early as 2022/23, or for strategic sites are expected to deliver 1,555 dwellings within 5yrs of adoption. It would not be justified to rely on these sites to meet short term housing delivery.
Appendix 1 should be amended to reflect the evidence provided by available evidence on the delivery of major developments. Additional smaller sites capable of providing homes in the early years of the plan period also need to be allocated.
We consider the Local Plan to be unsound in relation to the ability of the plan to meet the needs for older people, and that the identification of suitable sites has not fully considered all available sites in suitable locations, against the need to identify land to meet the need for specialist accommodation. In addition, the Plan in inflexible in meeting the identified need and additional, non-strategic, sites are required for the reasons set out in the representation.
We therefore seek to participate to provide oral explanation of the failures of the Plan in this regard via the examination in order to articulate the case for the recommended modifications as set out in this form and the accompanying representation.