Planning Development of the Village Shopping Centre and Eldon Way Trading Estate

We wish to register our concerns regarding the above development.

Our objection to options 1 and 2 are if the shops are going to be rebuilt in Spa Road, what will happen to our one and only Bank. If it is pulled down we cannot see it be reoped by Barclays. They need very little excuse to do this sort of thing.

We also object to the suggestion that traffic lights be installed at Spa Road Junction. If you stop the traffic instead of letting it filter as now happens the chaos it would cause would go back as far as Rayleigh even when not in the rush hour.

The proposed housing would cause too much extra traffic on the already congested roads around our small village.

We agree that we should retain basic shopping needs and businesses, but to expand would be detrimental to our community. The loss of the trading estate to Rochford would mean that local people would have to travel and the travel situation is not very good anyway with the loss of buses etc.

We are a village and we wish to remain a village.