Support

Representation ID: 571

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

West Horndon's retail offer is relatively poor, limited to two small top-up shops and a handful of other retail businesses. Hansteen considers that there is retailer demand for further appropriately-sized retail provision within West Horndon. This is also evident in anecdotal accounts from residents and business tenants leaving the village to fulfill their retail needs elsewhere (and not always in Brentwood). This demand will increase as the numbers of houses within the village increases. Policy S4's commitment to improving West Horndon's retail offer is welcomed.

Support

Representation ID: 572

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Support policy insofar as it allows for the redevelopment of combined West Horndon industrial estates and wider Strategic Allocation. Policy refers to phasing (appendix 3), but no site specific phasing information is given. Clarification needed on how it might affect timing of the West Horndon Industrial Estates, which make up such a significant part of the overall land supply.

"Sites 20 and 21 are brownfield land in Green Belt". In Appendix 2, Hansteen (021) and Threadneedle's (020) sites are also labelled 20 and 21 and are not within Green Belt. This is confusing. Further clarification is sought.

Object

Representation ID: 574

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Policy DM24 requires developments of 15 or more houses within Brentwood urban area to make provision for 35% affordable housing. Para 4.110 refers to affordable housing thresholds and targets outside the Brentwood urban area. There is some ambiguity whether this encapsulates the LPA's preferred option for affordable housing outside the Brentwood urban area. Clarification is sought.

Support

Representation ID: 576

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Hansteen support this policy.

Support

Representation ID: 577

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Hansteen support this policy.

Object

Representation ID: 579

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Hansteen support this policy insofar as it is consistent with the "Technical Guidance to the NPPF". Table 1 of the Guidance sets out the instances where FRAs are required. In the case of Flood Zone 1 areas (like the industrial estates in West Horndon) it suggests a brief form of FRA is appropriate, unless the local considerations indicate otherwise. Hansteen seeks clarification of the factors that have resulted in the draft plan not accepting the advice given in the Technical Guidance.

Object

Representation ID: 580

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Strategic Allocation master-planning would be constrained by density assumptions in Appendix 2. Both sites 020 and 021 are allocated for 250 dwellings. The density works out at 39dph for 020 and 25dph for 021. If the density assumption is uniformly 39 dph across both sites this would lift site 021 to 384 dwellings (and the total across both sites to 634 dwellings). No other housing allocation outside West Horndon assumes a density lower than 40dph. Applying this to 020/021 total housing rises to 650. Clarification sought on why density assumptions are different and lower than elsewhere within Brentwood.

Object

Representation ID: 581

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: Hansteen Holdings Plc

Agent: McGough Planning Consultants

Phasing assumptions for both Hansteen and Threadneedle's sites are shown as contributing 50 dwellings per year from 2017/18 to 2021/22. It is likely Hansteen's estate will become available in lots over the next few years (rather than as whole). Parcels could be available for redevelopment to housing as early as 2015. The assumed rate of development in good housing sites can reach 1.25-1.5 dwellings per month, which could result in 65-70+ houses per year. Clarification sought about how flexible the LPA would be in the event the development sites became available sooner and on the density and rates of development.