Please find this email as an objection to the development of land at the rear of Malvern Road and Harrogate Drive.

We purchased a property in Malvern Road last September and after some decorating and refurbishment only started living here from last month, we are very excited to start enjoying our new home and intergrating into Hockley life and see a long term future here. A big selling point to the house and area was the wonderful natural woodland outlook that you are now proposing to take away, if built upon we would lose our amazing view, beautiful wildlife, increased traffic/noise and a security risk to our very open back houses.

We are a young family and after only a few weeks living in the area, have found congestion in and out of hockley a major problem which poses a concern if the number of people living here was to increase, also we have been faced with waiting lists for placements at nurseries and play centres/toddler groups which already seem to be struggling with the number of applicants.

Plus as an observation the current average age of residents in Hockley, seems quite high, therefore once new generations move into the already existing houses we think the area will struggle with an increase in volume anyway, so to add to this would be highly upsetting to the current residents that wish to keep hockley as a friendly/appealing place to live.