Object
Allocations Submission Document
Representation ID: 28585
Received: 11/01/2013
Respondent: Mr and Mrs Ross
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
I do not believe that this plan is any near approaching being legal as the residents of the affected areas have declared in an overwhelmingly number in voicing their objections to this plan - before granting any further planning permissions the council should hold a referendum with the people of Hullbridge. This council has shown total disregard for the people that they purport to represent. The plan has no benefits for the residents of Hullbridge in that the area is already subject to flooding and with further fields being taken away for development it can only increase the areas that would be affected by flooding - indeed the Met Office has indicated that the recent rainfalls that led to widespread flooding is only a forerunner of what the weather holds for us in the future. So armed with this new evidence the whole council should reconsider this plan then you have the question of access into and out of Hullbridge.
Hullbridge has only 1 road that serves this village and this is to be added to by several hundred vehicles. The plan is unsound in the sense that in an emergency residents would be trapped in Hullbridge under existing plans.
Furthermore the council has failed to take into account the medical and educational needs that this expansion would bring about. The existing surgery is already almost at bursting point and add another 500/800 people requiring a GP in Hullbridge and the system would fail dramatically.
I do not believe that this plan is any near approaching being legal as the residents of the affected areas have declared in an overwhelmingly number in voicing their objections to this plan - before granting any further planning permissions the council should hold a referendum with the people of Hullbridge. This council has shown total disregard for the people that they purport to represent. The plan has no benefits for the residents of Hullbridge in that the area is already subject to flooding and with further fields being taken away for development it can only increase the areas that would be affected by flooding - indeed the Met Office has indicated that the recent rainfalls that led to widespread flooding is only a forerunner of what the weather holds for us in the future. So armed with this new evidence the whole council should reconsider this plan then you have the question of access into and out of Hullbridge.