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Should consider alternative sites , not Green Belt, ideally brownfield sites. Remove R25 and R26 form plan. Refer to BVHA neighbourhood plan which sets out local housing need

There is no clear 'strategy ' for the villages including Blackmore, in the north of the borough. BBC has not consulted adequately with Epping Forest District Council. Over houses being constructed and/or planned close to Blackmore village. The principle of residential development off of Redrose Lane is wrong, Blackmore is an isolated village with modest services and infrastructure (The school and preschool is full, the doctors surgery is Doddinghurst is already over subscribed, inadequate bus service, narrow lanes and already dangerous parking, sewerage system is overloaded already etc). There are more suitable and or sustainable locations, eg urban extensions of Brentwood (eg Honeypot Lane), and the locations in Blackmore so not promote sustainable development. BBC has not demonstrated that there are other brownfield sites that are available and which should take priority over the Greenfield/Green Belt land off of Redrose Lane. BBC has failed to demonstrate that the required housing could not be met by increasing housing density on other (allocated) sites. There has been no 'housing needs survey' to demonstrate why Blackmore village is included in the LDP. The access off/from Redrose Lane is entirely unsuitable for this volume of traffic movements. The entire village is prone to severe flooding, and sites R25 and R26 are both liable to flood. Building on this land will only increase the flood risk elsewhere in the village.