Object
Brentwood Local Plan 2016 - 2033 (Pre-Submission, Regulation 19)
Representation ID: 23672
Received: 19/03/2019
Respondent: M Scott Properties Ltd
Agent: Strutt & Parker LLP
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
The Plan specifies that windfall sites will deliver 41 units/year in the last 10 years of the Plan period (totalling 410 units to be delivered by windfall sites). The reliance on windfall delivering seems unjustified and undeliverable. In addition, there is no robust reason why instead of allocating windfall sites to the last 10 years of the Plan, additional smaller sites could not be allocated in order to provide greater certainty of delivery and to improve the housing land supply, especially within the 5 years of the Plan being adopted, when the housing land position is at its weakest.
Release additional, suitable Green Belt sites in order to assist with the delivery of homes over the Plan period, including to meet the need for specialist housing.
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.