On receiving the correspondence regarding "Future Housing Development" On plot accessed off Barling Road and situated between Smithcroft Bungalow on the left and Claystreet on the right, I am writing my objections to this site being the proposed site for building application. We live in a small hamlet, not a village. We have no immediate services. There is not even a bus service on Sundays. Since moving here approximately ten and a half years ago the traffic along this narrow B road (Barling Road) has increased 5-fold avoiding the amount of cameras on the Artillery Way A1159 leading onto Eastern Ave, Priory Crescent and ending up on the A127. We already get heavy lorries coming round this way going to the Purdeys Industrial Estate. We get five times the amount of private cars and have always had the farm vehicles. Right through this hamlet there are no suitable pavements for the elderly and children to walk along even to visit the post box. Looking at the proposed plans the entrance to this building site is onto Barling Road in between two existing properties, thereby this will increasing the load on this narrow B road yet more.

These plans will block our current views which you will appreciate is why we brought the property we did and have made extensive improvements to it. It will de-value our properties as the plans come right up to the current back border of our property.

I am disabled and we are both in our mid-seventies with no chance of getting a mortgage. It was a builder who left us penniless after trying to increase the price of the renovations and we are now with a charity Money Finance firm getting straight. So we will not be able to move on from our final expected permanent home to retire in.

There are all the buildings on Victoria Avenue just rotting. Opposite the Police Station and Law Courts, please tell me why these cannot be knocked down and the more than average square footage used to build more affordable houses.

There will be a lot more of these spaces to use where firms have given up their leases and properties. Why not build on the current built up areas that have become derelict instead of using greenbelt land. Nobody would object to one school with sports grounds surrounding it as more schools are definitely needed and the green sports grounds would also fit in with the area. The traffic would only be school runs.

Please considered my views as we love where we live as do our neighbours. I am quite sure if the members of the Council were faced with the prospect of their lives being disrupted as all ours will be they would also be purturbed.