I would just like to express my disgust on the 1800 homes planned for Rayleigh.

Having lived in the town for all of my life I have seen the inexorable decline of the quality of living.

From the Downhall Park area it now regularly takes up to 30-45 minutes to drive the 1.5 miles and park in the town centre (an essential use of the car due to an ill parent and small children)

Even those of limited intelligence should be able to workout that cramming 1800 more homes in to this town will not make it any easier to get around.

On the way home tonight an earlier accident around Ingatestone on the A12 meant that I had to queue from The Dunton slip road on the A127 to almost the A130 interchange.

An extra 1800 houses is going to help this?

From the two developments recently completed in this area it seems that all the development companies seem to want to do is build the highest number of houses in the smallest possible area (again dressed up in the plan as a good way to minimise the loss of green belt) Has anyone who approves these plans actually tried living in this type of estate? Roads so small cars can't pass, Lack of garage / driveway space that forces people to park on the pavements on these narrow roads. The danger to children playing in the street is frankly unacceptable.

It seems that all this "affordable" housing is really an excuse to maximise profit. I can only wonder how these plans get passed.

It is my opinion that any significant development in Essex should be in the form of new town's / villages, planned with all the correct infrastructure in from the start, and not located along the choke points of the A127 / A12 / A13

Don't just dump them all in Rayleigh, It's full up already!

I would appreciate some insight into how plans for Rayleigh are passed, especially detailing how much time in actually spent in the area reviewing the local issues & identifying how many decisions are made by people who might as well be living in Scotland for all the understanding they seem to show of real local town issues.