Support

Representation ID: 937

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

West Horndon as a settlement to absorb significant growth is strongly supported in the emerging plan. However since the settlement was first assessed as a potential growth location, the need for new homes has substantially increased. The Council is unable to meet its needs for new housing and in a Borough that has few opportunities for development, it should consider whether there is scope to maximise the potential of this location and increase the quantum of development being proposed.

Object

Representation ID: 938

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

The emerging local plan promotes a spatial strategy for the Borough that directs development growth to the existing urban areas of Brentwood, Shenfield, and West Horndon, in locations well served by existing and proposed local services and facilities. West Horndon as a settlement to absorb significant growth is strongly supported in the emerging plan. However since the settlement was first assessed as a potential growth location, the need for new homes has substantially increased. The Council is unable to meet its needs for new housing and in a Borough that has few opportunities for development, it should consider whether there is scope to maximise the potential of this location and increase the quantum of development being proposed. Therefore, we propose to develop
* Land East of Childerditch Lane, now being promoted by E and A Strategic Land and identified as a preferred option for growth in the Draft Plan. 10 hectares of Grade 3 agricultural land to accommodate 300 dwellings, with a wider area of 80 hectares being rejected on the basis of insufficient housing need; and
*Thorndon Avenue and West of Tilbury Road, now being promoted by Countryside Properties and the subject of these representations. This area is referred to in the Draft Plan as an alternative location for growth. 10 acres of Grade 3 agricultural land to accommodate 300 dwellings, with a wider area of 75 hectares being rejected on the basis of insufficient housing need.

Object

Representation ID: 940

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

There has been a failure to comply with the relevant requirements of the EU Directive and Regulations. A substantive revisiting of the plan strategy is required. This should include the preparation of a thorough and effective Sustainability Appraisal that takes into account a proper testing of the alternatives for growth. The options for growth should be considered in the context of the objectively assessed needs for housing in the Borough which should give regard to current and future demographic trends and profiles and take into account evidence including the government's latest published household projections.

Object

Representation ID: 941

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

Our assessment of landscape sensitivity and potential for change to the Green Belt reveals that land at West Horndon is capable of accommodating significant growth to meet the Council's housing needs. In the absence of a proper SA, land adjoining the existing settlement has not been fully assessed. Sites have emerged as preferred options without the benefit of full assessment under the guidelines of the EU Directive and Regulations for undertaking SA. Similarly this inadequate assessment has failed to properly test the alternatives.

Support

Representation ID: 1310

Received: 01/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Colliers International

Whilst we agree in general with the strategic objectives set out in the plan, we wish to specifically support the following:
* SO2 - Manage development growth to that capable of being accommodated by existing or proposed infrastructure, services and facilitates.
* SO8 - Plan for housing that meets the needs of the Borough's population and contributes to creating inclusive, balanced, sustainable communities.

Object

Representation ID: 1313

Received: 01/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Colliers International

Whilst we acknowledge the need to safeguard the Green Belt and areas of landscape value, this should not be to the detriment and ability to deliver the objectively assessed needs of the Borough. The Metropolitan Green Belt is currently drawn tightly around the existing settlements. We believe that in order to achieve the strategic vision by 2030, growth should be focused to the town of Brentwood and a review of the Green Belt boundary should be undertaken to release enough land to accommodate the objectively assessed needs. Therefore, we strongly object to strategic objective SO7.

Object

Representation ID: 1315

Received: 01/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Colliers International

We object to the proposed approach taken to establishing the spatial strategy for the Borough, in particular to not focus the majority of growth in and around the town of Brentwood and position to maintain the current Green Belt boundaries. In order to meet the required growth levels and deliver the strategic objectives of the Plan, Brentwood should be the focus of the majority of housing delivery for the plan period and a review of the Green Belt for the release of land should be undertaken in general conformity with Alternative Option 1.

Object

Representation ID: 1319

Received: 01/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Colliers International

We object to making only minor amendments to the Green Belt. In order to meet the future needs of the Borough there is an identified need to review and amend the Green Belt boundaries in order to accommodate growth in a plan led way. The only feasible Alternative Approach, not currently identified as an approach within the Plan, is to release land where it is no longer serving Green Belt purposes (paragraph 80,NPPF). Our clients land at Doddinghurst Road (either side of A12) is located adjacent to the settlement boundary of Brentwood and allows for a natural defenceable Gb boundary.

Object

Representation ID: 1320

Received: 01/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Colliers International

Our client objects to the exclusion of their site as a major housing allocation in the Plan. As set out previously in this representation, there is a clear need to allocate sustainable greenfield sites adjacent the settlement boundary of Brentwood in order to meet the Borough's full objectively assessed needs for market and affordable housing.

Object

Representation ID: 3378

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Planning Ltd

The emerging local plan promotes a spatial strategy for the Borough that directs development growth to the existing urban areas of Brentwood, Shenfield, and West Horndon, in locations well served by existing and proposed local services and facilities. West Horndon as a settlement to absorb significant growth is strongly supported in the emerging plan. However since the settlement was first assessed as a potential growth location, the need for new homes has substantially increased. The Council is unable to meet its needs for new housing and in a Borough that has few opportunities for development, it should consider whether there is scope to maximise the potential of this location and increase the quantum of development being proposed. Therefore, we propose to develop
*Land East of Childerditch Lane, now being promoted by E and A Strategic Land and identified as a preferred option for growth in the Draft Plan. 10 hectares of Grade 3 agricultural land to accommodate 300 dwellings, with a wider area of 80 hectares being rejected on the basis of insufficient housing need; and
*Thorndon Avenue and West of Tilbury Road, now being promoted by Countryside Properties and the subject of these representations. This area is referred to in the Draft Plan as an alternative location for growth. 10 acres of Grade 3 agricultural land to accommodate 300 dwellings, with a wider area of 75 hectares being rejected on the basis of insufficient housing need.