I refer to the proposal for the possible building of 7,500 new houses in the local area to Hullbridge, Rayleigh and surrounding area.

I strongly object to this vast number of houses being built in this area due to congestion, pollution, lack of school places, lack of patient places at doctors, loss of wildlife and green areas, reduction of quality of life in what is a small village now and which would become a town.

With the type of soil in the village of Hullbridge building on such a vast scale could cause flooding.

We are already having to accept 550 houses which will dramatically alter life here without another load being built.

I believe roads will be totally congested with just the 550 houses and cannot imagine how horrendous it would be with this huge extra number of properties. Rayleigh is already known to be a very polluted town with a poor air quality in parts which is injurious to health and this will just increase across the whole of this area making it unpleasant to live and travel in. Considering we are all supposed to be more environmentally aware I'm amazed the council would want this much pollution. The roads just could not support the increase in traffic this building project would bring.

On top of this it appears funding for this whole project looks pretty dire with secured funding a tiny percentage of what is required.

Please think again on this disastrous plan so we aren't drowned in a sea of concrete and pollution. Hullbridge has a very special community which our local council seems determined to ruin.