Object

Representation ID: 35431

Received: 21/02/2018

Respondent: Mr R Waite

RE: CFS024

As with previous objections to the development of this land I believe the three
paragraphs below still stand

The site is allocated as Metropolitan Green Belt within the Rochford District
Council Replacement Local Plan (2006) and is there to protect the
countryside from being developed inappropriately. Policy R1 (Development
within the Green Belt) within this document specifies that "Within the
Metropolitan Green Belt there is a general presumption against inappropriate
development" except in very special circumstances. No special
circumstances have been specified in this case and it does not fall into the
criteria of the exceptions specified within policy R1. The proposal will not
preserve the openness of the Green Belt and will conflict with the main
purposes of the land within it.

This site is not specified within the emerging Core Strategy as a area for
potential residential development. Furthermore the site is specified within the
Council's emerging "Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD)" as Site
30. Within this document the Council specify that development to this site will
lead to Likely loss of character of site: Likely loss of significant views into/out
of site: There is also fear this would create greater ease of access to the rear
of properties already backing on to the existing open land, and provide a
greater threat of illegal entry to these properties, via their rear gardens
In addition the conclusion within "Appendix 1 to the Allocations DPD
document - Call for Sites 1-40" specifies that "The emerging Core Strategy
does not advocate the allocation of land for any other uses within this area.
The site is not within the preferred locations for residential development as set
out within the Core Strategy Submission Document. The site is on the outskirts of the main settlement." Therefore this proposal contradicts both the
current Replacement Local Plan (2006) and the emerging Local Development
Framework documents including the Core Strategy and the Allocations
Development Plan Document.

Nature reserve and wild life on the site.

There is also concern over the close proximity to the nature reserve next to it
and the detrimental effect this will have on the wild life in the area, the land
itself is a haven for wild life which has many species living in it both daytime
and nocturnal, the last time an environmentalist visited the site was during the
daytime and in December when the nocturnal creatures were asleep or
hibernating so did not give an accurate picture of what is happening on this
land. Also the wild life would lose their amenity of the stream for water.

Flooding

During heavy rain water collects at the bottom of Marylands Avenue, this used
to run away in to the Stream that runs through this propose development due
to the land owner blocking this, This stream is a running stream and runs
virtually all the way through this land and also collects water from the various
fields and tributaries that surround this land and to block or cover this stream
would cause flooding of the whole area which then brings into question the
problem of insurance for householders in the surrounding the area.

Infustructure

Access to this development site is too narrow, Marylands and Merryfields
avenues are quiet residential family orientated avenues and to have heavy
site traffic weaving its way up and down these avenues would be extremely
dangerous to the children and pedestrians alike as already there is a problem
with parked cars and with a potential of another possible one hundred cars
using these avenues make no sense what so ever. The emergency services
have a problem getting through with haste now which could have an impact
on lives This would also cause problems with Plumberow Avenue and the
amount of traffic using the road and filtering out into Greensward lane causing
congestion.

Amenities

As at present the amenities cannot cope with any extra capacity caused by
this development. The doctors, dentist, schools and other bodies are over
subscribed as at the present time. As already stated the sewer system cannot
cope now and the water pressure is inadequate for the estate now it would
make it even worse if this development went ahead

So in conclusion These factors also mitigate against the development

Visual impact on existing property holders
Overlooking current properties
Impact on the general area
Potential for further development
Increased traffic and parking current roads are narrow and already suffer from
vehicle parking in the road. An increase in this will create further problems
and require extra monitoring of current parking restrictions.
Set a dangerous precedent in the area for further encroachment of green belt
areas and resultant potential loss of wildlife habitat.

Historically, there have been numerous incidents of blockages and floodings
and these sewers could never cope with further burdens on their capacity