Comment

Representation ID: 16011

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Will seek early consultation on any proposal to ensure that there are sufficient opportunities to meet the identified needs of an area for the management of waste and to apply and promote the waste management hierarchy within sustainable development. Consideration needs to be given to the provision for waste management uses as an employment activity within any proposed commercial or industrial employment areas. Considerations should also be given to the potential for integrated land uses and low carbon heating / power systems.

Comment

Representation ID: 16014

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Consistency should be provided with regards the definition of the proposed allocation at Dunton, which is phrased as:
- Policy 7.1 Dunton Hills Garden Village
- Paragraph 7.5 - `will provide a new settlement'
- Hierarchy of Place, paragraph 5.30 - `a new self sustaining village' within Settlement Category 2: Village Service Centre.

Comment

Representation ID: 16015

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Advise if the allocation is being proposed as a `Garden Village' consideration should be given to applying the Garden City principles as outlined in the NPPF and the 2013 Town and Country Planning Association's publication "Creating garden cities and suburbs today".

Comment

Representation ID: 16018

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

A gap exists in the provision of Independent Living housing across Essex. There are not sufficient numbers of Independent Living units to relieve pressure for residential care placements. A programme has been developed by ECC to increase the supply.
Within Brentwood, it is estimated that there are 267 eligible social care clients amongst the 27,041 persons aged 55 or over. By 2020, 134 units are required; 26 units are already provided, which leaves 108 still to be provided by 2020 (split 50/50 social rented/shared ownership).

Comment

Representation ID: 16019

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

ECC is establishing a Developer-Provider Framework to enable Independent Living schemes on land owned and/or made available to public sector organisations. In addition, ECC has set aside a capital grant allocation of £27.7m to support the delivery of 1,800 units of Independent Living. This budget is available to spend on schemes developed between 2015/16 - 2021/22. Schemes requiring grant support can be those coming forward through the Developer-Provider Framework or by developers with their own sites.

Comment

Representation ID: 16024

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

Regarding the high level assessment of potential impacts of the preferred spatial strategy on primary and secondary education - Windfall sites have not been considered because it is not possible to assess where they may occur. However, it should be noted that these 928 dwellings have the potential to generate up to an additional 275 primary places, well in excess of an additional form of entry.

Comment

Representation ID: 16025

Received: 11/05/2016

Respondent: Essex County Council

It will be important that in considering the housing applications which will come forward that the interests of schools should be taken fully on board. This is likely to involve reserving suitable sites on new developments for new schools. Details of the site areas required are provided in the ECC "Developers' Guide Education Supplement" (currently the 2010 version).

Comment

Representation ID: 16026

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).

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.