Thank you for sending me the brochure re:- the proposed development of Southend Airport.

I have grave concerns for the future of residents like ourselves on the impact of a larger airport and extended runway at this airport.

Apart from the noise levels, when we are in our back garden (which we love) on a number of occasions when the planes are about to take off, our whole garden and conservatory fill up with emission fumes, the taste and smell of these fumes in your noise and mouth are very distressing and we have to come indoors until the fumes have gone away, this has had a real impact on our quality of life in our home and garden, and we know we are breathing in carcinogenic fumes from these aircrafts, so with bigger and more aircrafts taking off this will definitively affect our future health and lives.

The other big concern is night flights, I was told by the airport that they have a 24hrs permit to fly aircrafts at night and we fear that this will also start to happen in the future as the airport starts to grow, so this again will have a negative impact on our health through noise levels, depriving family with children and residents in Rochford of disturbed sleep, which would lead to ill health.

The Southend Road that runs along side of the airport is quite a narrow road, and is very busy and congested and you feel at times you are taking your life into your own hands walking along the pavement, so again by increasing the size of the airport there will be more traffic, more noise, more pollution, also we fear our small side roads will become parking zones for travellers by car to the airport, as if there are pay and display machines inside the airport, people travelling by car will use our small roads to park in for however long they will be away, again restricting our access and exit from our homes.

I know my letter will be read and put to one side, as money is more powerful than our quality of life, but I felt that I needed to write to you to express my concerns and to say maybe sometimes you should take a step back and ask yourselves what is progress and who will suffer because of this if it takes away our quality, peace, security and most of all our right to live a happy, healthy life in our homes free from anxiety.