Support

Representation ID: 15579

Received: 10/05/2016

Respondent: Mr Lee O'Connor

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

Support the proposed housing allocations within the urban area as set out within Table 7.2.
Support the redevelopment of brownfield land within the Green Belt; however there are far more sites that those stated within Table 7.2 that are suitable for redevelopment for housing.

Support

Representation ID: 15639

Received: 10/05/2016

Respondent: Tony Hollioake

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

Support the proposed housing allocations within the urban area as set out within Table 7.2.
Support the redevelopment of brownfield land within the Green Belt; however there are far more sites that those stated within Table 7.2 that are suitable for redevelopment for housing.

Comment

Representation ID: 15704

Received: 10/05/2016

Respondent: Go Holdings

Agent: The John Bishop Partnership

Potential to include the triangular site of 4.7 ha (ref106), located to the east of the A12, for residential development. The site has defensible boundaries, location to transport links, proximity to education facilities and potential for open space provision.

This site is compliant with the criteria of sustainability for development of housing and open space, where accessibility can be improved through footways and cycle ways to the centre of Ingatestone.

The capacity of this site range from 97-197 units depending on the density levels.

Comment

Representation ID: 15706

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Mr Owner Land East of Hall Lane Shenfield

Agent: Smart Planning Ltd

Request to include Land East of Hall Lane, a part of which is referred as site 218 in the Draft Plan, for housing development. The site is suitable, available and achievable for residential development. The site is sustainably located, being adjacent to the built up area of Shenfield, accessible by a range of transport options. The development of the site will be a logical extension to Shenfield and could provide a range of housing, including smaller units and affordable housing as appropriate to contribute to meeting the identified housing need.

To meet the housing need large areas of land that are currently green belt and greenfield sites are proposed to be developed for housing. The LPA have accepted that some green belt and greenfield land is needed for housing development.

Comment

Representation ID: 15707

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Wyevale Garden Centres Ltd

Agent: Greogory Gray Associates

Request the Council to consider the allocation of Ongar Garden Centre as a suitable site for residential, retail, employment or leisure purposes.

The highly developed nature of the existing site would allow it to be redeveloped to contribute towards meeting the Borough's identified needs in a manner compliant with national Green Belt policy and without detriment to the existing character of the area.

The site may have a lower degree of accessibility to existing facilties but due to its previously developed nature it has a nil or even reduced impact.

Comment

Representation ID: 15726

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Wyevale Garden Centres Ltd

Agent: Greogory Gray Associates

Request to include Ongar Garden Centre for development allocation sites. Although the site does not immediately adjoin a settlement boundary such that a future resident or occupier of the site would be likely to utilise private means of transport, it is within easy reach of an established centre hence reducing the impact of traffic on the character and amenities of the locality.

Comment

Representation ID: 15866

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Sammi Developments Ltd

Agent: Phase 2 Planning and Development Ltd

The site at Brook Street/Nags Head Lane (ref 175B) can make a modest contribution towards housing supply as part of an office-led mixed use scheme.

Comment

Representation ID: 15891

Received: 12/05/2016

Respondent: Cadena Holdings Limited

Agent: Collins & Coward Ltd

Potential to include land at Bellropes, Warley Street, Great Warley for residential development. The site is long established and lawful and will be available for residential development in the short term. It could deliver 20-30 new homes in a manner which can be appropriately assimilated within the Green Belt.

The site is close to hotels and public houses. It is a short distance from Brenwtood town centre and the strategic road network such that longer distance trips are easier to access. The site will lie on a planned green travel route.

Comment

Representation ID: 15906

Received: 12/05/2016

Respondent: Kitewood

Agent: Kitewood

'Land to the rear of BT officers' (15.6ha) offers the opportunity to infill development contained within the urban area of Brentwood. The site should therefore be allocated.

Comment

Representation ID: 15911

Received: 12/05/2016

Respondent: Ms Sheryl Thomson

Opportunity to include land in Herongate for housing development. Location Plan submitted.

Comment

Representation ID: 15959

Received: 13/05/2016

Respondent: Simply Planning

Agent: Simply Planning

The Stondon Massey Scrap Yard site should be identified within the emerging Local Plan as a significant brownfield site suitable for housing. As a large brownfield site within the Green Belt the site is acceptable for housing provided that the proposed development does not have any greater impact on the openness of the Green Belt.

The site is over 3ha and is too large to be left to be treated as a windfall site. The potential housing that could be accommodated should be assessed at the Local Plan stage so that it can be assessed whether other greenfield Green Belt sites are required for release.

Comment

Representation ID: 15960

Received: 13/05/2016

Respondent: Simply Planning

Agent: Simply Planning

Potential to include site 104 at Stondon Massey for housing development, the site currently covering 3.2 hectare is a heavily used, heavily trafficked site and is an eyesore in the Green Belt. Very close parallels can be drawn between site 104 and Thorby Priory (site 18) which was given a resolution to grant planning permission in July 2015. The Council's Green Belt Assessment of the Thorby Priory is almost identical to this site.

It was accepted that the resulting development would be relatively isolated and require residents to use private cars however it was accepted that the current uses generate a significant amount of traffic.

Comment

Representation ID: 16036

Received: 13/05/2016

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Phase 2 Planning and Development Ltd

The inclusion of Dunton Hills Garden Village for 2,500 dwellings within the Plan period is questioned.
The site at Bayleys Mead can make a modest contribution towards housing supply and is deliverable within the early part of the plan period.. The site has good access to public transport, services and facilities, within Brentwood Urban Area. Although the site falls within the Green Belt, it performs poorly and hence development is considered to be appropriate. Development on the site would have a minimal impact on the countryside as identified in SHLAA. There are no heritage assets on the site. It has a relatively low landscape quality in the Council's GB Assessment and not at risk from flooding nor in close proximity to an Air Quality Management Area.

Comment

Representation ID: 16046

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Sites: 001A, 001B, 003, 005,013B, 039, 040, 041, 044 and 178, 081, 099, 100, 010, 022, 023, 032, 034, 087and 235.
Primary School Capacity - Currently very little surplus capacity Brentwood Town group. Current forecasts indicate a deficit of 94 permanent places by the school year 2019-20. There is limited scope for possible expansion of existing primary schools, many restricted or constrained by the "green belt" or land designated as "special landscape areas" or "conservation areas". Given the Plan is proposing significant release of Green Belt to meet its housing need, ECC considers appropriate consideration should be given to allowing the expansion of existing primary schools and potentially new schools in the Green Belt to meet an identified local need and to minimise unnecessary additional home-to-school journeys on the congested road network at peak times.
As indicated, it is difficult to accommodate level of growth via the expansion of existing schools and it would be prudent to identify a site for a new 2 form of entry (420-place) primary school to accommodate this growth within the Local Plan. This would require a site of 2.1 ha (to include Early Years provision) and replacement of existing temporary accommodation at schools within the group with permanent accommodation.

Comment

Representation ID: 16047

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Sites: 042, 098, 128 and 079A.
Primary School Capacity - The 3 schools in Ingatestone/ Mountnessing are currently close to capacity. The limited amount of new housing identified for sites in this area could produce up to 38 additional pupils. This level of growth could probably be accommodated within the existing schools by the replacement of the existing temporary accommodation with permanent accommodation. However, a significant level of "windfall" sites in this area would require an expansion of provision.

Comment

Representation ID: 16050

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Sites: 020,021,152 and 200.
Primary School Capacity - Only primary school serving this area is West Horndon Primary School which is currently operating at capacity. The school has the site capacity to enable it to expand beyond its current size. However, part of the current site is leased to a scout group until 2020. It may be possible to acquire some additional land to the rear of the school to enable a more significant expansion than could be accommodated on the current site.
The 2,500 dwellings identified as the Dunton Garden Suburb could produce up to 750 primary aged pupils. This level of growth would require the provision of at least one large, or more probably two smaller new primary schools. It would be imperative for a primary school site to be made available as early as possible on the Dunton Garden Village site.

Comment

Representation ID: 16052

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Sites: 001A, 001B, 003, 005,013B, 039, 040, 041, 044 and 178, 081, 099, 100, 010, 022, 023, 032, 034, 087and 235.
Secondary School Capacity - Currently a significant level of surplus secondary school places in the Brentwood/ Shenfield area. Whilst the level of surplus is forecast to fall over the course of the next 5 years as Becket Keys Church of England Free School fills there will still be a significant level of surplus places, that could be utilised to accommodate growth generated by new housing in the Brentwood/ Shenfield area. The impact of the opening of the new secondary "free school" in Chipping Ongar on the intakes of the secondary schools in the Brentwood/ Shenfield area is yet to be determined.

Comment

Representation ID: 16054

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Sites: 020,021,152 and 200.
Secondary School Capacity - There is no secondary school located within safe walking distance of West Horndon/ Dunton. New housing development in this area would require all secondary aged pupils to be transported to existing schools located in Brentwood/ Shenfield, until such time as a new secondary school was opened on the development. If no new secondary school was opened on this development ECC would face significant ongoing home-to-school transport costs. Whilst there are secondary schools in Basildon that are geographically closer to West Horndon/ Dunton than those located in Brentwood any surplus places at these schools are likely to be utilised by pupils residing in Basildon.
Concerned the description of Dunton Hills Garden Village as a 'new self-sustaining community' implies that the scale of development allows the necessary critical mass to provide for local services and infrastructure', this may not prove true in respect of the provision of a new secondary school to serve this development. A joint or linked development with Basildon Borough Council in this area would provide the critical mass of pupils required to sustain a new secondary school in this area.

Comment

Representation ID: 16055

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Sites: 042, 098, 128 and 079A.
Secondary School Capacity - Anglo-European School is the only secondary school included within this forecast planning group. As the school gives priority in terms of admissions to local children it should be in a position to accommodate the growth in pupil numbers produced by the limited new housing.

Comment

Representation ID: 16058

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Seeking new early years and childcare facilities preferably co located with new primary schools, where appropriate, and which will be funded through developer contributions.
The preferred strategy is likely to require the following additional 56 place early years and childcare facilities to accommodate between 450-500 additional places:
Brentwood North - 1 new 56 place facility - suitable site to be identified.
Dunton Hills Garden Village (2500 dwellings) - 4 new 56 place facilities.
West Horndon (500 dwellings) - 1 new 56 place facility.
Shenfield - 1 new 56 place facility - potential to allocate facility at the Officers Meadow, Alexander Lane (600 dwellings).

Comment

Representation ID: 16077

Received: 13/05/2016

Respondent: Martin Grant Homes

Agent: Pegasus Group

Martin Grant Homes requests to include site 244 to deliver a modest and sustainable infill development in accordance with policies 9.8 and 9.12. The site can deliver approximately 10-15 dwellings in the short term and would assist in addressing the lack of a five year housing supply, as well as provide significant community benefit.

The site is well located to existing transport corridors and regular public transport links. There are clear defensible boundaries to the site and development of the site would provide a new defensible boundaries. Land release from Green Belt in this location would not conflict with the purpose of Green Belt.

Object

Representation ID: 16085

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

Key benefits that would arise from development on land to the east of West Hordon :

* Countryside Properties track record of delivering high quality strategic schemes with genuine a
sense of place and integration with existing villages
* Fully deliverable and fully sustainable- within a 5 minute walk of the existing railway station and
local facilities and services.
* Delivery of much needed high quality housing in the Borough.
* Development early on in the plan period with minimal infrastructure required to access and deliver
proposals.
* Delivery of new open space, recreational facilities, primary school, new connections to wider
countryside.
* Improvements to the existing village.
* No significant impact on the Green Belt, landscape character and visual amenity
* Development proposals can fully mitigate its impact.
* Comprehensive illustrative masterplan.

Comment

Representation ID: 16132

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: EA Strategic Land LLP

Agent: Iceni Projects Limited

Sites 037a & 037b Land West of Thorndon Avenue in the Housing Sites Assessment are considered a moderate contribution to the overall purposes of the Green Belt. It is considered that the risk of a reduction of countryside gaps between towns would not be significant and any existing interlying barriers can be maintained. There is also no or very limited potential for other Conservation (Heritage) Designations to be adversely affected by development, and it is accepted that some encroachment into the countryside would occur as a result of development.

Object

Representation ID: 16146

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

Table 7.2 has not been assessed in an SA . We object to the implied encouragement of early applications that accord with this list, this would be premature without the SA. The statement in paragraph 7.30 that
the sites have been assessed against criteria, including a long list such as suitability for housing, accessibility to public transport infrastructure provision, impact on Green Belt etc, is wholly incorrect. There is no evidence to demonstrate such assessment has been undertaken.

Support

Representation ID: 16174

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Joy Fook Restaurant

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

Support the proposed housing allocations within the urban area as set out within Table 7.2.
Support the redevelopment of brownfield land within the Green Belt; however there are far more sites that those stated within Table 7.2 that are suitable for redevelopment for housing.

Comment

Representation ID: 16183

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Joy Fook Restaurant

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

Support the allocation of the Joy Fook Restaurant, which sits adjacent to Bentley Golf Club, in Kelvedon Hatch. The site would fall within criteria 2 [Brownfield green Belt Urban Extension] of the approach to identifying land.

Comment

Representation ID: 16184

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Anderson Group

Agent: Bidwells

Site 076 - the land south of Redrose Lane, off Woollard Way- is an appropriate site for residential development and should be released from the Green Belt because it is suitable, available and deliverable. The site has the capacity to deliver between approximately 40 and 56 dwellings, taking account of public open space, infrastructure requirements and density preferences. Development could be delivered in a manner that would not cause harm to its Green Belt function, the local landscape, heritage interests, natural resources or other local sensitivities.

Comment

Representation ID: 16198

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: South Essex Partnership University NHS Trust

Agent: Bidwells

Opportunity to include site 083 covering 2.13 hectares for housing development. The site lies in a highly sustainable location, well connected by public transport and is close to school, doctor's surgery, and sport ground and is currently performing little Green Belt functions.

Support

Representation ID: 16199

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Mr Hugh Thomson

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

Support the proposed housing allocations within the urban area as set out within Table 7.2.
Support the redevelopment of brownfield land within the Green Belt; however there are far more sites that those stated within Table 7.2 that are suitable for redevelopment for housing.

Comment

Representation ID: 16220

Received: 16/05/2016

Respondent: Mr Hugh Thomson

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

Confirm support for the allocation of the land surrounding Ashwells Lodge, Doddinghurst. The site has been assessed within the Council's 'Assessment of Potential Housing, Employment and Mixed Use Sites in the Green Belt' and is within a parcel of land that can accommodate more than 10 dwellings. The development of the site would amount to logical rounding off of the settlement boundary and has no greater purpose for the Green Belt than those already suggestion for allocation by the Council.
The site comprises grassland; it has residential development on two sides and the surrounding countryside is of varying character and quality. The majority of the boundaries are well screened, forming a strong natural barrier.