The land to the West of Little Wakering Road is used at present to grow food, sustain wildlife and provide a boundary for Great Wakering. The need for highway access to the south will create traffic problems on Southend Road and back into Star Lane and the High Street, which already suffer at peak times. The road in general are unsuitable, the High Street does not accomodate large volumes of traffic and in most places if a car is parked, which they have to for access then jams are caused as the road is too narrow for passing. The roundabout at the top of Star Lane and Southend Road sees numerous accidents, especially in the height of Summer and in Winter, feeding more traffic onto here would increase the problems and decrease air quality.
The green belt area, the field has a wealth of wildlife which I have seen and photograph from my back door, which overlooks the field - foxes, badger, shrew, mice, blue tit, coal tit,great tit, long tailed tit, magpie, blackbird, songthrush,starlings, sparrow, chaffinch, greenfinch,black cap, red-legged partridge, pheasant, great black-backed gull, common gulls, robin, wren, accento, pied wagtail, meadow pipit, housemartin, skylark, collared dove, wood pigeon, dunnock, a pair of herons and hunting kestral.
Great Wakering is a village, with the proposal to the south we will become part of Shoebury and thereby Thorppe Bay and Southend, the sprawl of the large suburb without distinct areas and villages.The road network will not sustain the housing. There are not the shops available in the West and South of the village to provide for further housing.
The public transport servvice is threatened so may not be here for an influx of new families, so adding to road congestion.