Comment
Rochford District Core Strategy Regulation 26 Draft
Representation ID: 138
Received: 11/06/2007
Respondent: Ms A Davard
I can't believe the Council are even considering building 400 more homes in the Hawkwell/Hockley area. You will completely ruin the rural feel that Hawkwell has managed to maintain and is what makes living here as enjoyable. If you start destroying our small pockets of green space, we will just end up another overcrowded, overdeveloped village, attracting more crime to the area. People enjoy walking down unmade lanes like Thorpe Road because it takes them away from the noise and pollution of made up roads, if only for a short while. Destroy areas like this and people will soon jump back into their cars if there is nowhere peaceful to walk. Please don't spoil Hawkwell and please don't let our quiet country lane be turned into a made up road, lined with houses. This tiny piece of Hawkwell is a predominantly bungalow area, would be completely overwhelmed by housing development and it would be quite inappropriate to encourage more traffic to converge onto the already busy mini roundabout at the Rectory Road/Hall Road junction. Thorpe Road is just a small lane with a couple of areas of land containing trees and scrub and I was told by the Council when I moved here that it was Green Belt land and wouldn't be built on. It is a haven for wildlife which have a quiet undisturbed place in which to make their homes, away from the two busy roads. These include foxes, badgers, squirrels and muntjac deer, as well as a fine array of birds from the tiny goldcrest to birds of prey. We regularly have night time visits by foxes and badgers to our gardens. Horse riders, dog walkers children going to and from school all use this road and it is a safe way to Spencer's Park and Clements Hall away from traffic. Small areas like this help to keep the rural feel to Hawkwell, dividing up developments and stopping them from being overpowering, so please don't let this quiet spot be destroyed by greedy developers. Just think of the hundreds of years that this little lane must have been here - once lost, it can never be replaced. Thank you for listening and please fight to keep Hawkwell green.
I can't believe the Council are even considering building 400 more homes in the Hawkwell/Hockley area. You will completely ruin the rural feel that Hawkwell has managed to maintain and is what makes living here as enjoyable. If you start destroying our small pockets of green space, we will just end up another overcrowded, overdeveloped village, attracting more crime to the area. People enjoy walking down unmade lanes like Thorpe Road because it takes them away from the noise and pollution of made up roads, if only for a short while. Destroy areas like this and people will soon jump back into their cars if there is nowhere peaceful to walk. Please don't spoil Hawkwell and please don't let our quiet country lane be turned into a made up road, lined with houses. This tiny piece of Hawkwell is a predominantly bungalow area, would be completely overwhelmed by housing development and it would be quite inappropriate to encourage more traffic to converge onto the already busy mini roundabout at the Rectory Road/Hall Road junction. Thorpe Road is just a small lane with a couple of areas of land containing trees and scrub and I was told by the Council when I moved here that it was Green Belt land and wouldn't be built on. It is a haven for wildlife which have a quiet undisturbed place in which to make their homes, away from the two busy roads. These include foxes, badgers, squirrels and muntjac deer, as well as a fine array of birds from the tiny goldcrest to birds of prey. We regularly have night time visits by foxes and badgers to our gardens. Horse riders, dog walkers children going to and from school all use this road and it is a safe way to Spencer's Park and Clements Hall away from traffic. Small areas like this help to keep the rural feel to Hawkwell, dividing up developments and stopping them from being overpowering, so please don't let this quiet spot be destroyed by greedy developers. Just think of the hundreds of years that this little lane must have been here - once lost, it can never be replaced. Thank you for listening and please fight to keep Hawkwell green.