Object
Brentwood Local Plan 2016 - 2033 (Pre-Submission, Regulation 19)
Representation ID: 24398
Received: 30/05/2019
Respondent: Dr. S.J. Jennings
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Object to inclusion of sites R25 andR26 in Blackmore as it is unsuitable location for development due to damage on historical village, there is no strategy for development in the villages in BBC, surface water flooding is an important issue with historical flood events, the infrastructure isn't sufficient: the roads, sewerage, flood protection, power supply, GP services, school places, parking, and this will be exacerbated when combined with Epping Forest DC proposed development.
Blackmore Village Heritage Association will be producing a Local Needs Plan in cooperation with the Local Parish Council.
Other villages are reported to desire more housing to make them viable.
Infrastructure - huge improvements needed. Refer back to representations.
Historic village of Blackmore is a lively viable community slowly growing naturally.
Brentwood BC planning advice advocates only developing villages where there is a need to make then viable., the historic character will not be improved and road connections are easy. More of this is true for Blackmore.
Moreover there has been no clear strategy for the villages north of Brentwood nor has there been any assessment of the needs of Blackmore.
At the open consultation meeting in early 2018 with BBC planners it was evident that they know little about Blackmores situation or about development of houses in Epping Forest DC which are really part of Blackmore although over the border. (Friary Hall Lane 32 +; Woolmanger Road 8). On about the ?12 traveller sites off Chelmsford Road.
Infrastructure issues -
Roads 5 lanes connect village to outside world, narrow and windy, subject to flooding in several places, badly congested at rush hours. Cut off by snow sometimes.
Surface water drainage. Already poor, roads often flooded, with stalled cars, bad flood Aug 1987 when houses flooded around the Green, the south side of the Blackmore Road and the bottom half of Church Street including historic grade 1 St Lawrence Church. There has been no change to the water-ways since then, we has a "near miss" in June 2016.
Climate change predicted to in crease extremes of weather! The run off of surface water from any further development will increase the risk of homes being flooded for existing residents.
Sewage, pump off Ingatestone Road a the limit of coping quite often, overflows raw sewage into The Moat and thence into the River Wid fairly often. Back up in 2016 was the cause of one or two properties flooding.
Electricity supply prone to short power cuts specially in windy weather, throws timer/computer out frequently.
School crowded, even now some village residents cannot get their children in!
GP services, local GP surgery cannot recruit enough doctors so waiting times long.
Parking in village centre and at village hall is dire.
Road connections, windy narrow country lanes prone to flooding.
Epping Forest Developments will add strain on some of these items