Our Wakering/Barling villages suffer from poor connectivity to other areas, with the local roads being predominantly farm tracks paved over with no capacity to accept further development without significant infrastructure investment. Normal council operations such as refuse collection already cause significant traffic issues due to a lack of or poor infrastructure design throughout the district, especially on link roads such as Sutton Road. Developments currently discharge traffic onto feeder roads that are narrow and unfit for large volumes of traffic (Barrow Hall Road) and congestion on other roads such as the A13 push traffic onto other minor country lanes such as Shopland Road. Sustainable development needs to address infrastructure and public transport, the latter is poor with limited services and encourages car usage.