Objection to 100 new houses either north or south of Brays Lane on the grounds that we are aware already of further planning applications for 550 houses in Rawreth, 500 houses in South West Hullbridge, 500 houses in south east Ashingdon, 175 houses in south Hawkwell and the Coombes Farm Project, then a further large site at Hall Road which is going to include a school, why we need a new school being built when Watermans School only currently has around 40 pupils, does not make sense, surely there is ample capacity for additional children at Watermans. The expansion of King Edmund School is obviously to take in the children from the new housing estates listed above.

Our main objection is the fact that there has not been any recommendations regarding a new road to reduce the traffic which currently uses Ashingdon Road. The above new housing sites would all converge onto the existing road which cannot cope with the volume of traffic as it is.

Additional to all this is of course the expansion of Southend Airport, which we do not object too, we are fully aware that this project will create new jobs, but this also will create even more traffic.

We would welcome a new road to co-exist with the existing shingdon Road to make all our lives a bit easier, but cannot see how you can progress with the above without creating the infrastructure to compliment the projects.