1 , Spa road is a very pleasant shopping facility,the fact that a lot of the shops are low rise gives it a nice airy open feeling.To replace it with three/four story buildings would be criminal.You would jus turn it into typical urban jungle.The only modern high rise shops in Spa road look a disgrace,they do not appear to have had any decoration ar maintainance done to them since they were built,there are rotton wooden facings aon the balconies,the paintwork etc. is appalling.So much for modern buildings.

2, If you go under the railway bridge towards Ashindon you will see a parade of shops just past the petrol station,they have flats above,and if you look they are little better than slums,gaffitii all over the place,the communial areas are dirty and full of garbage.Why? because people do not look after communial areas,the children are forced to play in them ,get bored and vandelise everything.And that is exactly what will occour if you tear the heart out of Hockley with your stupid ideas.Do any of you actually live in Hockley?

3, The proposal to let "Tesco"or some other large supermarket chain to open a large store is crazy,those sort of developments should be confined to out of town locations.As I said if you allow this sort of developement to happen you can kiss goodbye to the local shops in Rochford,Hullbridge,Hawkwell, Ashingdon,they will all end up closed,you make comments about the empty shops in Spa road,but two of them have just been let,one is opening as a bakers the other one is beeing worked on at the moment.So really you just do not appear to know what you are talking about.

4, Traffic ?? The proposal allow a large supermarket will do a lot to deal with traffic problems won't it ???? That was a joke by the way !! It will without a doubt make the traffic a loy worse,when people from all, the villages previously mentioned,come here to shop.You planners really are crazy arn't you.

5, Destroying jobs on the Eldon Way trading estate,what a lot of sense that makes,where do you get the people from who make these suggestios for gods sake??Buliding lots of flats there hmmm. great idea,where are the children who will live there going to spend their time,oooooh guess,on the streets wrecking the place.Have you not learnt anything from what happened in London and othere large cities back in the sixties/seventies families and flats with no private outside space do not work.

SO as I said before LEAVE HOCKLEY ALONE

In addition why have you not consulted with the people of Hockley honistly and above board,to put it on your website and hold ameeting in Hullbrige is an awfull way to behave,I for one will certainly try to get you unelected at the next council elections.