I am writing to comment and object to the proposed development of green belt land,both North and South of King Edmunds School, in Brays Lane,Rochford.

In the last few years there has already been some 80 dwellings built in this area, this has been evident to residents of Brays Lane by the increase in traffic along the road.
As well as this increase in traffic, the speed that they travel at and the HGV traffic that uses it, have been complained about in the past.If the proposed development goes ahead as planned then there will be a large number of children attempting to cross Brays Lane to access both their new homes and the football pitch facilites. In a road where there is no enforcement of speed control, or safe areas to cross this will be a accident waiting to happen. Proposing to have a mini roundabout makes no difference to the speed travelled as they will simply drive over it, as will the HGV traffic as it wil be unable to navigate the roundabout properly due to the space.

This increase in traffic will also add to an already congested Ashingdon Road, making a 1.1mile journey to Rochford take anything up to 25 minutes. In a world where pollution and car emissions are supposedly of paramount importance this practice does nothing to suppport this.

Locally the schools are already over subscribed,as are the General Practioners, where are all these new residents supposed to educate their children or seek medical advice if all the schools and doctors are full already?

There are also plans to accomodate Housing Association residents within the privately owned dwellings. The implications of this have already been observed in Rochford where local residents have experienced damage to their properties and vehicles from the Housing Association tenants residing in the old Rochford Hospital site. There is no doubt in my mind that the residents of Brays Lane will experience the same problems, this will cause our car and house insurance to inflate through no fault of our own.

In the last 20 years the population of the local areas has massively increased, there has to be some control over this as the attraction of living in this area has always been its rural appeal. Continued building will merge all the areas into something resembling Southend and put further strain on the facilities available to its residents.