Plans for a huge garden community village with thousands of homes are set to be approved at a Brentwood Council meeting.

Officers have recommended the creation of a mixed-use garden community comprising up to 3,700 homes be approved by the planning committee when it meets tonight (November 29).

The proposed development would also come with three care homes and an all-through secondary school with a community sports hub.

Additionally, up to three primary schools with early years provision, a children’s nursery and crèche alongside an employment hub are planned.

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The development also envisages a village centre with a market square, community building, healthcare provision, a place of worship, a gym, as well as a pub, betting shops and hot food takeaway units. Sitting alongside it would be a cricket ground with a pavilion and a football hub with changing and social facilities.

The development, which could eventually grow to around 4,000 homes, is being envisaged in Dunton Fanns, Dunton Woods and Dunton Waters – each anchored by a primary school and small-scale local facilities.

Dunton is one of 14 Garden Villages designated by the Government in January 2017 and is identified in the emerging Brentwood Borough Local Plan as a strategic housing allocation to meet the majority of the borough’s housing need within the plan period to 2033.

Across the local plan period, a total of 7,752 new dwellings need to be added to the borough’s existing stock.

Three vehicle access points to the Dunton development site would be provided from the A128 to the west, the central access forms the driveway to Dunton Hills farmstead; and the southern access to the golf centre.

The A128 Tilbury Road provides access to West Horndon via Station Road, to Brentwood and the A127 (via the A127/A128 junction) to the north of the site, and it also extends south to the A13 at Tilbury.

A report set to go before councillors said: “Having considered the proposed development’s impact on Green Belt, the proposed development’s assessment as a holistic village development as intended by key Policy R01, and having considered the proposed main land uses individually, officers consider that, subject to benefits and mitigation being secured through planning conditions and/or planning obligations, the principle of the proposed development would be acceptable.”