Object
Brentwood Local Plan 2016 - 2033 (Pre-Submission, Regulation 19)
Representation ID: 25622
Received: 19/03/2019
Respondent: Blackmore Village Heritage Association
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
The access off/from Red Rode 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. Both fields (R25 and R26) are teaming with wildlife - hundreds of birds nest in the hedgerows within and around the fields. We have photographic evidence (stills and videos) of certain protected species (bats, barn owls, great crested newts).
The plan overall is not the issue - I am challenging policies R25 and R26 Blackmore's inclusion in the LDP solely.
Please refer to the attached Blackmore Village Survey of July 2018, which is hereby re-submitted.
Blackmore Village Heritage Association will have an updated "Neighbourhood Plan "available.
Section 4
Policy SP01-D (a) & D (f) Para 4.2, 4.9
Policy SP02
Section 8 (natural environment
Policy NE 06, 8.5-8.64 - para 8.85 (iv), 8.90, 8.101
Policy NE13
Policy R25 - 9.197-9.200
Policy R26, 9.201-9.205
The plan is deficient in respect of Blackmore Village and unsound on all 4 tests. In particular:
1. There is no clear 'strategy' for the villages, including Blackmore, in the north of the borough.
2. BBC has not consulted adequately with Epping Forest District Council, over the houses being constructed and/or planes, close to Blackmore Village.
3. The principle of residential development off of Red Rose Lane is wrong. Blackmore is an isolated village with modest services and infrastructure. (The school is full, the doctors surgery in Doddinghurst is already over-subscribed, inadequate bus service, narrow lanes and already dangerous parking, sewerage system is overloaded already etc).
4. There are more suitable and/or sustainable locations, eg urban extensions or Brentwood, (Eg Honeypot Lane) and the locations in Blackmore do not promote sustainable development.
5. BBC has not demonstrated that there are other brownfield sites that are available and which should take priority over the Green Field/Green Belt land off of Red Rose Lane.
6. BBC has failed to demonstrate that the required housing could not be met by increasing housing density on other (allocated) sites.
7. There has been no 'housing needs survey' to demonstrate why Blackmore Village is included in the LDP.
8. The access off/from Red Rode Lane is entirely unsuitable for this volume of traffic movements.
9. 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.
10. Both fields (R25 and R26) are teaming with wildlife - hundreds of birds nest in the hedgerows within and around the fields. We have photographic evidence (stills and videos) of certain protected species (bats, barn owls, great crested newts)
The plan overall is not the issue - I am challenging policies R25 and R26 Blackmore's inclusion in the LDP solely.
Please refer to the attached Blackmore Village Survey of July 2018, which is hereby re-submitted.
Blackmore Village Heritage Association will have an updated "Neighbourhood Plan "available.
As Chairman of the "Blackmore Village Heritage Association", I wish to present our own vision for our village based on what Blackmore actually needs.
There will be a form of "Neighbourhood Plan" available, which will significantly update the attached village survey dates July 2018.