Object
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 5476
Received: 24/02/2015
Respondent: Mrs Christine Wyatt
Much concern and thought is being given to the building of new homes in the Brentwood area. However, there seems to have been no thought given to one very helpful solution which would be to build small quality for our aging population to buy and move into. This would free up roomy comfortable houses with good sized gardens for families.
In Hutton and Shenfield almost every home that is sold is immediately increased in size. Where do those of us who brought up our families here, made our life and our life and our friends here, downsize to?
This area has masses of valuable family sized homes being lived in by one or two elderly persons - any why? It is because there is nowhere close by and convenient to downsize to. What we need is high quality luxury small houses or apartments - two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one decent sized living room, a kitchen, a garage, and a very small garden or large balcony. All this would be affordable from the sale of current homes. Newspaper advertisements show many other areas are building exactly what I am suggesting. Why Not Brentwood?
It seems that no one has had the foresight to think this through. Please Brentwood Council show some sense and put a site, such as the Crescent Drive Blood Bank, to some sensible use.
See attached letter