I live along the Ashingdon Road, opposite Oxford Road. As stated in the letter delivered to my home, the Ashingdon Road is already an extremely busy road so the thought of having even more HGV's and construction vehicles using it horrifies me. I understand that people need homes, but the land you are proposing to sell to the developers is Green Belt. I took part in the march against building on Green Belt land in 1978 with my parents and understood at that tender age how important it is to have fields and places for people to enjoy the countryside that we live in. If you allow this development to go ahead, there will be no clear definition between towns and villages, they will all merge into one larger community, which is not what we want.

The local community will not be able to support the development of 500 houses behind Sapwoods, in "South East Ashingdon", nor East Ashingdon site off Brays Lane. The doctors surgery's are both full, the one dentist in Rochford is full for NHS patients, the schools are at capacity with people who live in the area currently not able to send their children to the local schools, so what will happen to these services. You are talking about cutting the local bus service. Again, a cost cutting exercise that will damage the community and limit access for the people who rely on it.

There will obviously be lots more children moving into the area, and this will mean more young teenagers hanging around in their 'packs' causing distress by their behaviour and noise and language levels - there is nowhere for them to go safely at the moment so where will all the new children go. Hordes of them hang around outside the off-licence and local Somerfield's store, swearing, smoking, leaving their bikes strewn across the pavement. My mother will not go to the local shops unless she drives as she does not feel safe about walking past them. I'm sure that they would not do anything untowards, but she feels intimidated by them.

Surely you should try to develop the existing local community before you extend it by over 1000 'dwellings' by the year 2021. The local conservative representative has been heard telling local people that they have blocked all development plans. Obviously another untruth, as they will surely be included in this project.

I am going to be speaking to my immediate and surrounding neighbours to guage their views and feelings on this, but I am certain that this will not be an easy ride for the Council and hope that someone there takes the views of us, your community, seriously.

I would welcome a response and had there been proper notification, I and my neighbours, would have attended any meetings you held to hear the excuses for this appalling suggestion.