I agree with the majority of your respondents. On the other hand, if this is to be a "fait accompli" then we must provide solutions that we can live with, for now and in the future. I am a great lover of the countryside, and Essex has much to offer. In particular, I am very fond of Roach Valley. It is an oasis in the middle of the terrible urban sprawl we recognise as RDC and SOS. I know it as well as I know my own home! And yet, there is one anomaly that could very well be of benefit to the Local Plan. I speak of a plot of waste-land at the "bottom" of Bull Lane, along a paved track that leads to a Farm. It is approx 100m X 100m and has been neglected for many years. It serves no useful purpose, and has nothing to recommend it. It is bordered on one side by a housing development and on the remaining three sides by farmland. It is probably a 1/3 mile to what anyone would consider to be the boundary of the Roach Valley public area. This is supposedly within the green-belt, but only in the very loosest sense of the word. In other respects it might be ideal for development. Amenities and transport links all all within easy reach. If it were to be developed then I would want the developers to understand that there should be absolutely no encroachment beyond the boundaries of this field - that would be unthinkable.