I am informed that a greenbelt area (ref cfs054) at the rear of South View Close, in Rayleigh has been ear marked as a possible site for development and would like to inform you as follows:

The area does not have the infrastructure to accommodate a 23% increase in the housing for the following reasons: Our doctor's surgery recently changed their policy to "telephone appointments" as they do not have the sufficient number of doctors to cover the amount of face to face appointments requested, furthering the populace would indeed worsen the healthcare availability locally even further.

We also not have the schools capacity, the local junior school Wyburns is small and full to capacity now, would their funding be increased, would their property be extended, would they be allocated funds for further teachers?

We also find that the number of cars in Rayleigh has increased substantially in the last 5 years. There are only 2 main roads out of Rayleigh and at any given time they are extremely gridlocked, particularly the Weir/A127 junction. We currently add 10/15 minutes to enable us to get out of Rayleigh to any planned journey, we simply don't have the road capacity for another 23% increase in traffic.

Lastly we are somewhat shocked at the choice of this area, as we back onto that land and have serious flooding issues almost every winter, supplying our own sandbags on regular instances after rainfall and snowfall. Eastwood Brook is subject to overflowing on a regular basis.

Thank you for your attention. We would like logged that both my husband and I are highly apposed to this land being redeveloped.