Object

Brentwood Local Plan 2016 - 2033 (Pre-Submission, Regulation 19)

Representation ID: 24442

Received: 03/06/2019

Respondent: Mrs Vicky Mumby

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Duty to cooperate: there has not been sufficient consultation with other neighbouring authorities. There us a development of 30 new, large houses by Epping Forest DC 100m outside the parish boundary in Fingrith Hall Lane. These properties are 1/3 miles from Blackmore Village and 5 miles from any other town/village. This will exacerbate the impact of the proposed 70 new properties being considered for Blackmore in the infrastructure and amenities.

Change suggested by respondent:

Remove sites R25 and R26 from plan, refer to the Blackmore Village Heritage Association (BVHA) 'Neighbourhood Plan' for housing need.

Full text:

Including the following sections:
LDP Fig 2.3 Settlement hierarchy
LDP Section 04 (management growth)
Policies:
SP01 - D
Paras 4.6 4.9 4.20
Policy SP02
Policy SP04 - A
LDP Section 06 (housing provision)
Policy HP 08

Section 08
Natural Environment
Policy NE 06 paras 8.51 -8.64
Para 8.85 (IV)
Para 8.90
Para 8.101
Policy NE13
Section 09 site allocation
Policy R25 para 9.87 -9.200
Policy R26 paras 9.201 - 9.204

I consider the plan to be unsound and fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate for the following reasons:
1. IDP Fig 2.3 settlement hierarchy: there are errors in the plan eg the population of Blackmore is listed as 829 but this does not cover the residents in Nine Ashes Road past Red Rose Lanes and Chelmsford Road which includes a mobile home park and illegal travellers site.

2. Duty to cooperate: there has not been sufficient consultation with other neighbouring authorities. There us a development of 30 new, large houses by Epping Forest DC 100m outside the parish boundary in Fingrith Hall Lane. These properties are 1/3 miles from Blackmore Village and 5 miles from any other town/village. This will exacerbate the impact of the proposed 70 new properties being considered for Blackmore in the infrastructure and amenities.

3 Red Rose lane is a single track and not suitable for the extra volume of traffic generated by the proposed housing. It is used by walkers, joggers, cyclists; dog walkers and horseriders and has no pavement. The additional traffic will bring increased danger to these users along with the lack of street lights.

4. Flood Risk: Blackmore sites in a dip and is prone to flooding which has occurred a number of times over the years. The planned 70 homes will reduce the available land to soak up water, therefore flooding will increase.

5. Policy NE06 states that in 8.52: Developing inappropriately in high risk areas can put property and lives at risk; this policy seeks to ensure this does not happen.

6. infrastructure Requirements: There are no infrastructure requirements listed in policy R25 or R26, however all amenities and services are already stretched inc the local primary school, electricity, sewerage system, doctors surgery etc.

7. There is no clear housing strategy for the villages and general area in the north of the borough. There are many other options that have been suggested through this process but have not been considered.

8. A 'housing needs' survey should have been carried out which would have demonstrated why Blackmore has been specifically included on the LDP and why other more suitable areas have not been included.

9. The borough Council have not shown that the required additional houses for the borough could not be delivered by increasing the housing density on the other allocated sites in the plan.

10. There are brownfield sites available nearby but there is no evidence these have been considered in preference to using Green Belt land.

11. Other more suitable locations eg areas around Doddinghurst which have better transport links would have been a far better proposal that the development in Blackmore which is not a sustainable development proposal for the reasons given.

12. The proposed sites are important to wildlife and natural habitats.
Policy HP08 seeks to regularise an illegal travellers site on the Chelmsford Road. The borough Council has failed to undertake its duty to attempt to remove the travellers since they moved in some years ago. The Council has watched the site grow without taking any action!

My family moved to Blackmore 2 years ago from Epping for a quiet village life. The village does not have the capacity for 70 new homes.

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