This submission should be read in connection with my comments in Representation ID 16112.
The site, known in this document as 'North of London Road', slopes from its northern perimeter to the south. A basin is formed in the lower areas and is identified by the Environment Agency on their web-site as an area liable to flood. The basin opens out in a westerly direction and joins the Rawreth brook which takes runoff water to the river Crouch, which in turn, flows out to the sea.
Rawreth brook, which is non tidal, passes through low lying ground in Church Road , west of Rawreth village. This is an area known to flood and water has entered adjacent dwellings on a number of occasions in the past. Most recently being within the last year.
The erection of 1020 new dwellings on the site 'North of London Road' will create an enormous amount of additional water runoff, which will fall naturally towards the lower basin and then to Rawreth brook.
Even with SUDS, I do not believe that the Rawreth brook will manage vast amounts of extra water. This will, without doubt, result in further and more frequent flooding of properties in Church Road.

Should the development of a major housing estate north of London Road be approved, there will be an inevitable risk of flooding on a far greater scale than exists now. Thorough flood risk assessments to eliminate the smallest possibility of flooding should be carried out and made public before any proposals to build are given approval