The allocation of 1800 new homes to Rayleigh is excessive. West Rayleigh, in particular, has had to shoulder the lion's share of new development over the past twenty years, with the consequence that local roads, such as Downhall Road have become excessively congested with traffic. It is time that other parts of the district, particularly settlements to the east, took a greater share of new development, and gave Rayleigh a break from continual rapid expansion. The mortar is hardly dry on the new monstrosities built on the old Park School site - and now we are expected to take another massive batch of housing, what an insult!

I would support the alternative policies of: Greater dispersal, making more use of settlements to the east of the district, and greater dispersal to minor settlements.