Comment

Representation ID: 20000

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Brentwood has not completed a Strategic Housing land Availability Assessment since 2011 and is updating the Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment. This evidence should be provided. These assessments should review and identify whether sites are suitable, available and achievable. The 2018 Site Assessment Study sets out how sites have been selected but it's not fully clear how the sites for proposed allocations have been included and others discounted. Further evidence is required to understand why the proposed allocated sites are considered suitable in updates to the land supply and further information provided from Green Belt review, landscape and infrastructure.

Comment

Representation ID: 20001

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Both the Preferred Site Allocations document and IDP only contain assessments of infrastructure focusing in particular upon education and health. Significant elements of infrastructure such as transport and Green infrastructure are not included. The assessments of infrastructure for Dunton Hills are not currently included and it is stated this work is still subject to ongoing options under master planning for the site. Significant elements of the infrastructure evidence base are still required in order to justify the overall level of growth, the approach to the spatial strategy and the sites allocations being proposed by Brentwood Council in the local plan.

Object

Representation ID: 20002

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Thurrock Council objects to the elements of the spatial strategy, in particular limited growth at larger villages and the role of a new settlement at Dunton Hills Garden village including the potential for additional dwelling capacity. It is unclear why a free-standing greenfield settlement in the Green Belt should be the preferred location for development compared to existing settlement expansion or green field urban extensions which are likely to be more sustainable and closer to existing transport and other existing infrastructure and services.

Comment

Representation ID: 20003

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Thurrock Council considers that the most appropriate spatial strategy would be a variation of the previous options with growth including Green Belt release concentrated in the A12 Brentwood/Shenfield corridor but with some potential for Green Belt release at West Horndon.

Comment

Representation ID: 20004

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Thurrock Council considers there is significant potential to provide development in the A12 Corridor including the potential for urban edge expansion of settlements. Areas to the north of Brentwood and north, east and south east of Shenfield, Pilgrims Hatch and south of Hutton should be considered for edge of settlement expansion as part of a Green Belt Review. Due to the size and extent of the Green Belt in these locations that a limited number of urban expansions are less likely to have a significant harm to the openness of the Green Belt than locations in other broad areas.

Comment

Representation ID: 20005

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The role and potential economic and housing benefits of Crossrail with regard to development at Shenfield have not been fully assessed and incorporated into the emerging Brentwood Local Plan, either as part of the current stage or previous consultations. This should be thoroughly investigated. The implications of the potential to accommodate more growth and associated infrastructure requirements need to be considered with some weight as a way of meeting the undersupply of housing requirement currently identified in the Brentwood Local Plan options and supporting evidence.

Comment

Representation ID: 20006

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The A12 widening and delivery of Crossrail will bring about significant increased capacity and accessibility improvements to transport infrastructure for Brentwood in the A12 Broad Corridor during the later-part of the plan period. This will make the A12 Corridor broad area more suitable for development opportunities.

Object

Representation ID: 20007

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

Key concerns regarding DHGV include: Significant impact and harm to the openness of the Green Belt; Coalescence of settlements; Detrimental impact on the Landscape; The lack of certainty regarding its deliverability; Lack of detail on location and phasing of development; Lack of detail on the viability of the proposal; Impact of the scale of development on adjoining housing markets and ability of Thurrock to deliver its housing; Infrastructure delivery and funding; Impact on strategic highway network; Impact on the local highway network including within Thurrock; Lack of transport modelling and mitigation measure; Assumption and scoring in the SA/SEA.

Comment

Representation ID: 20009

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The Dunton Hill Garden Village would result in a significant Green Belt release leaving a limited gap between Basildon and West Horndon. Other proposals such as a significant urban extension west of Basildon together with the Dunton Hill Garden Village would also result in potential coalescence and urbanisation of the A127 corridor resulting in significant loss to the openness and strategic function of the Green Belt. Further Green Belt releases for employment land (Brentwood Enterprise Park) taken together with Dunton Hills Garden Village will also contribute to a cumulative impact on the openness of the Green Belt in this corridor.

Comment

Representation ID: 20010

Received: 28/03/2018

Respondent: Thurrock Borough Council

The A127 is at capacity at peak times and does not represent a better road transport alternative to the A12. Any larger development is going to require additional road infrastructure investment to improve access. Further work to understand the capacity and improvements required is being undertaken by the Local authorities and Highway England.