I strongly object to the planning proposal to flood this local authority district with a disproportionate and unacceptable volume of planning applications for residential accommodation
without any consideration to the effect this will have on the infrastructure needed to make these proposals sustainable. It is unacceptable that local district councils are permitted to give permissions to implement their housing policies and at the same time turn a blind eye and wash their hands on issues that can only be resolved at county council level so as to make these developments sustainable. It should be imperative that the two tiers of local authority organisations take a corporate approach and joint responsibility to ensure that the substantial increase in the number of houses to be developed will be sustainable in the environment as a whole.
B1013
1. Any competent planning officer with integrity and a feel for the concerns of the local community must already know that the B1013 road which runs between Rayleigh Weir and Rochford Town Centre is no longer fit for purpose. The need to reduce congestion and provide a free flow of traffic on this road demands that urgent proposals be put in place in the following areas so as to avoid the present slow moving, costly and time wasting movement of traffic causing unacceptable levels of atmospheric pollution in the environment;
The junction between Rayleigh High Street and Eastwood Road, the junction between Hockley Road and Websters Way, the junction between Hambro Hill and Hockley Road, the junction between Main Road Hockley and Buckingham Road, the junction between Southend Road, Spa Road and Main Road Hockley, the junction between Rectory Road and Hall Road and the junction between Hall Road and Bradley Way Rochford.
I understand that in future it is intended to build a substantial number of new houses on green field sites at Mount Bovers Lane, Ironwell Lane, Nursery Corner and Cherry Orchard Way. These developments have the potential of producing another approximately 3 500 vehicles, all of which which will need access to the B1013. In nineteen years time the demand for private motor cars serving these dwellings could easily rise to exceed an additional 7000. This is in addition to the demands already made from the recently built sites of 175 houses in Rectory Road and 600 houses in Hall Road.
I would be pleased to receive all the information that you may have concerning improvements to the B1013 to avoid any future grid lock occurring in this main access to several cccccccccc c local routes, so as to make the New Local Plan sustainable.
It is absurd and a planning folly of unmeasurable incompetence to inflict this number of additional vehicles on a road system which even now is unfit for purpose.
A possible solutions may be to provide two completely separate new access routes to the A127 and A130 to make these proposals sustainable and relieve congestion on the over-used B1013.
County Council Issues
2. In addition to providing an efficient and satisfactory transport network of highways to allow the free movement of traffic throughout the region, further measures will be needed to accommodate
the predicted increase in population by 2037. I would be obliged if you could inform me of the provision to be made for additional nursery, primary and secondary schools and college facilities in the wider area, to accommodate the predicted increase in children and young persons educational needs during the next 19 years.
3. As it is predicted that there will be an increase in the number of elderly people requiring care in the community, are additional measures being taken in the wider area for residential care homes to be provided to meet this need?
NHS Issues
4. With the predicted future increase in the population in 2037, the Mid&South Essex Hospital Trusts will need to assess the future requirements to provide a sufficient number of new hospitals and medical centres to meet the increase demand for these services.

It is high time that councillors and planning officers at district council level looked beyond the increased revenue incentive received from the New Build Bonus grants issued by the central government and focus their attention on the long term effect that these proposals will have on the environment now being provided by local district councils for future generations to come.