Our client, Martin Grant Homes, supports Brentwood Council's approach in planning to meet the full OAN within the Borough. However, there are the following concerns: Over-reliance on Dunton Hills Garden Village to provide 40% of the allocated housing growth; The lack of flexibility in the strategy to accommodate un-met need from neighbouring authorities; Limiting the housing requirement to just 380 dwellings per year prevents sustainable sites that are available now coming forward within the plan period and does not acknowledge the changes to calculating housing need using a standardised methodology. The current approach is limiting to sustainable development opportunities and may not deliver the full extent of the housing provision in the plan period. It is considered that by identifying more sites for modest development in sustainable locations such as our client's site would be an appropriate solution to meeting the identified housing needs across the Borough and would not lead to the loss of large areas of the Green Belt in concentrated locations. The inclusion of sites such as land at Heron Court in Herongate will provide Brentwood Borough with a range of sites that enable a flexible approach to housing delivery and ensure that land comes forward within the plan period. Brentwood's current strategy to largely rely on the Dunton Hills Garden Suburb and windfall sites could result in issues with delivery which prevent the Borough meeting its identified housing need and result in the Borough continuing to be unable to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites. Please see attached representations for more detailed information.

Our client, Martin Grant Homes, supports Brentwood Council's approach in planning to meet the full OAN within the Borough. However, there are the following concerns: Over-reliance on Dunton Hills Garden Village to provide 40% of the allocated housing growth; The lack of flexibility in the strategy to accommodate un-met need from neighbouring authorities; Limiting the housing requirement to just 380 dwellings per year prevents sustainable sites that are available now coming forward within the plan period and does not acknowledge the changes to calculating housing need using a standardised methodology. The current approach is limiting to sustainable development opportunities and may not deliver the full extent of the housing provision in the plan period. It is considered that by identifying more sites for modest development in sustainable locations such as our client's site would be an appropriate solution to meeting the identified housing needs across the Borough and would not lead to the loss of large areas of the Green Belt in concentrated locations. The inclusion of sites such as land at Heron Court in Herongate will provide Brentwood Borough with a range of sites that enable a flexible approach to housing delivery and ensure that land comes forward within the plan period. Brentwood's current strategy to largely rely on the Dunton Hills Garden Suburb and windfall sites could result in issues with delivery which prevent the Borough meeting its identified housing need and result in the Borough continuing to be unable to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites. Please see attached representations for more detailed information.