Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 5426
Received: 16/02/2015
Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council
Brentwood council needs to ensure that the local plan strategy and policies are evidenced on sound economic and housing technical studies based on robust methodologies for identifying objectively assessed need.
Thurrock remains very concerned that considerable elements of the evidence base have not been made available during the consultation process even though some of these studies were identified as forthcoming at the Preferred Options stage and despite comments made by respondents regarding this issue at this previous stage of consultation.
It is considered the draft Brentwood Local Plan remains part based on assumptions that are not clearly evidenced or available for respondents to make full and informed comments to this current consultation. The OAN report was only published very late in the consultation period. Furthermore assumptions and assertions are made in the Interim SA report without the full baseline of supporting evidence available (see other comments) This is a major error in approach and in the consultation and Duty to cooperate process. The draft local Plan and evidence when available should be subject to further consultation prior to the submission stage of the plan.
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