Object
New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 38458
Received: 03/09/2021
Respondent: Individual Resident
Roads - already cannot cope with the amount of traffic coming through, this will put another 500 cars within a small area.
Drainage -we are seeing the result of mismanagement of land, climate change and flooding- paving over natural ground soak always and feeding more homes into existing sewer/water systems, will lead to regular events such as that experienced recently in Bull Lane/Chase junction.
Essential services - we are not increasing these to keep pace with house building, are we just accommodating the overspill/flight from London.
Eroding the countryside and its beauty is not the answer.
Building the new housing developments proposed between Wellington and Bull Lane (currently designated green belt land) will not provide either existing residents or new residents the quality housing the government is proposing.
This will be a medium sized infill estate(s) that will come with no new access roads in/out of Rayleigh, it it unlikely to provide any long term other essential services, infrastructure or jobs. It will put pressure on the already clogged roads, drainage systems other infrastructure and essential services.
It will detract from one of the reasons people like in Rayleigh - semi rural and not a sprawling metropolis that it is set to become.