I have received messages and now a postcard regarding the RDC New Local Plan. We would like you to know that we feel any kind of action to the needed changes within the Rochford District will probably be ignored as many complaints and comments have been made over the many years we have lived here and very little has been done. Our roads in the area are in the most disgusting condition causing danger not only to motorists but cyclists, motor bike riders and pedestrians. The work that does get done is inadequate and has to be redone on frequent occasions. Drains are blocked and cause rain to flood roads. The housing estates are being built regardless of the lack of infastructure, the inability for some children to attend schools within their catchment areas, due to overcrowding, a lack of GP surgeries, parking facilities, which are overpriced and inadequate. The bus service regardless of the increased population is still poor, sites which are part of our heritage are either sold off or left to deteriorate as is the site where the old police station is in Rochford. The possibility of Mill Hall being pulled down, leaving no social centre for sport, entertaining etc. is also on the cards. Shops are closing due to high business rents and are left in poor condition making them undesirable to new business ventures. The gatehouse at the end of Hawkwell Park Drive is falling into disrepair beyond belief with overgrown garden etc. We thought this was a listed Grade 11 building. The cake shop next to it is a disgrace and would not tempt me or many people i know to have a cake made there particularly when you see the state of the waste ground outside. The parking at the end of Hawkwell Park Drive is appalling causing back ups of traffic into the road around which cars/vans turning off the main road are unable to progress. The overspill of cars from White Hart Lane Service Station, which are left in Hawkwell Park Drive and Park Gardens is also unacceptable. The cost of our Council tax is high enough to warrant all of these problems being resolved and I am afraid, as are many people I know, feeling that your request that we have an input into the future of our area is a complete waste of time.