The Local Authority's current position is that of significant development pressure in addressing historic poor delivery of housing numbers, which is reflected in the other authorities in South Essex. Option B is clearly the only suitable approach to adopt, as the status quo has not delivered the required need within the district and has therefore applied pressure onto the authority which otherwise could have been avoided if past under-delivery was addressed. Option B can be only the avenue for exploration by the LPA to ensure that maximum delivery can be assured by way of seeking brownfield sites to their exhaustion as well as the most appropriate sites to be released from the Green Belt.