Previous consultations ignored by RDC:
ï‚· The Hockley Parish Plan (dated 2007), clearly states that residents are strongly against any large scale housing development in Hockley, but if there has to be additional housing, then there should be no loss of greenbelt or open spaces, and no large housing estate developments. It was also stated that any developments must be matched by the appropriate levels of infrastructure.
ï‚· The proposals also ignore the 95% rejection rate of respondents to RDC's own Hockley Area Plan (HAAP) Consultation (2009), which included specific proposals for Eldon Way (although HAAP did not even mention the adjoining Foundry Industrial Estate). Why have a consultation and ignore it?

Thus the proposals are not founded on a robust and credible evidence base and are unsound