Policy information sourced from Brentwood Local Plan
PC10: Protecting and Enhancing Community Facilities
The Council recognises the importance of community facilities, including those registered as Assets of Community Value (ACV), as part of social infrastructure and seeks to ensure that:
- existing community assets will be protected from inappropriate changes of use or redevelopment;
- new facilities should be easily accessible by public transport, cycling and walking;
- development proposals that provide high quality, inclusive community assets that addresses a local or strategic need and supports service delivery strategies will be supported;
- development proposals should make best use of land, including, where possible, the co-location of different forms of community facilities and the rationalisation or sharing of facilities;
- development proposals that would result in the unnecessary loss of community facilities will not be permitted unless it can be demonstrated that:
- they will be replaced by alternative and well located facilities that will continue to serve the similar needs of the neighbourhood and wider community; or
- the loss is a consequence of the genuine need to rationalise existing facilities in an area in order to provide for existing and future community needs.
- the development or change of use of redundant community facilities should be considered only after it is established that there is no reasonable prospect of them being put to alternative community uses.
For more information please see the Local Plan