Dear Sirs/Madam
I write with much concern over the proposed New Local Plan for up to 7500 houses in this area! I believe the building that is currently going on in this area is far greater than the infrastructure can cope with!
I realise there is a need for more housing but with some of the affordable housing being around £350,000 how is this going to help our young people? If affordable housing is necessary why are houses worth up to a million pounds being built in this area particularly in Hall Road? I also believe that many of the houses being built in Hall Road are for a London Borough which I find completely unacceptable as we are grinding to a halt locally if this is so why are we committing to other boroughs? Surely common sense tells us that with all the traffic jams and problems in the area at the moment we cannot carry on building at this rate and also house people from London Boroughs! I believe the large building projects should be taken away from the South East altogether! This area of the country is simply FULL UP!!
We also have the huge industrial estate being built at the airport at the moment and goodness only knows how much extra traffic that will bring into the area aside from the delivery lorries which this site will bring there will be thousands of workers and customers! New jobs to the area you say - well that is if we can actually drive on our roads to reach it - perhaps drones are the answer!!!
If you happen to live in this area you will be aware of the chaos that is caused by even the refuge collections every week! Simply vans delivering to the local businesses in Hockley, which cannot park, can cause several miles of traffic queueing back in all directions! Road works of course are a necessity but can cause absolute chaos especially at time when it has been decided to dig up all surrounding roads at the same time!! It is not unusual to take an hour to drive from Rayleigh to Ashingdon which is of course before this housing phase is complete!
I also understand that all the various infills of flats and houses don't get counted in the big scheme of things? Is this correct and why are they not??
I would also be interested in knowing how the infrastructure would be improved because apart from knocking down half the houses on the main roads I fail to see what can be done! Local flooding can also be a problem and will not be helped by continued building on such a scale!
I am fed up with being told about Government policy - I don't believe anyone in the local planning office could actually justify what is about to be thrust upon us!
Our local hospitals, doctor surgeries, schools are not coping now so how on earth will they cope with everything that is proposed in this phase so I believe the allocation for the next phase should be dramatically cut and certainly avoid any further building directly adjacent to the Rayleigh to Hockley main road and also the main Ashingdon Road!!