2000 of the proposed 3800 new homes will be built in the central region of the district in the first 15 years and its worth highlighting to The Inspector the 3 roads they will impact on.
The central region of Rochford has a road from Rayleigh to Rochford the B1013. At the Spa roundabout in Hockley is the start of a second road to Rochford. This road goes to the East of the region to Rochford. The only link road between these two roads is Rectory Road. These two roads are classified as minor roads.

You have at any given time on these roads traffic flow delay due to unco-ordinated roadworks, mini roundabout bottlenecks, following the refuse collectors as they slowly go about their work, and zebra crossing delays.5 schools with the school run traffic and Rochford District Council's sports centre which serves all the district and beyond, impact on these 3 roads.

I Believe the proposed local highway capacity and infrastructure road improvements for these 3 roads includes more zebra crossings, mini roundabouts and traffic lights.The service providers may tell you these are improvements, the vast majority of residents will say they will be a further brake on the traffic flow with the added conjestion of 2000 new homes vehicles.

Rochford District Council are happy to announce they are using less than 1% of green belt land for the 9 proposed locations but unfortunately for the residents of this area 6 of the proposed locations impact on these 3 roads.

The service providers views on page 14 of topic paper 3 says the required road infrastructure to support the levels of development can be provided, yet Essex County Council commissioned Planning Consultants "Tribal" and "Tym & Partners" to carry out a sustainability study as part of their evidence base to East of England Regional Assembly the result of which is unequivical. They said "With respect to the Regional Spatial Strategy Scenario, the sub area would struggle to deliver this, the problems would therefore only increase for the NHPAU range". Risk of flooding, risk of coalesence,heavy peak time conjestion on the rail lines, there are no sustainable transport options for any level of growth, even at Regional Spatial Strategy.Although EERA and RSS are now revoked, nothing has changed to my knowledge to refute this study by the experts, and is at odds with what the service providers are saying in the proposed amendments.

I ask The Inspector when reviewing Rochford District Council's Core Strategy - Proposed Amendments to consider the third party in the trio, not the landowners, or the developers but the residents.