Object
New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 40348
Received: 06/08/2021
Respondent: Mr Grahame Foskew
Residents objection to proposal for housing
The plot involved has site reference CFS059 and address Land at Sandhill Road, Eastwood.
On behalf of my family I wish to express our strongest possible objections to this proposal.
Some time ago we were informed by your then planning development officer, that this land was specified as GREEN BELT.
Even the extensive house building programme announced by the government, laid heavy emphasis on the availability of Brown Field sites, which must always be prioritised.
Quite apart from the breach in the Green Belt principal that this proposal would involve, the whole character of the area would be seriously and irreversibly, altered.
Additionally I strongly suggest that the local infrasture in terms of roads, schools and the like would be severely impacted particularly as even now if the a127 has a problem Gravel Road is already used as a shortcut by many diverting drivers from the Rayleigh Road looking for an alternative route.
Also it is a fact that there are many Badger sets in the proposed area which may I remind you are a protected species.
We cannot, of course know how access to the proposed development would be planned but we must stress that access via the land adjacent to TUDOR CLOSE and TUDOR MEWS, would potentially result in serious parking issues, and more importantly risk injury to a child.
Back in 2004 a planning application for this land, was rejected by the Planning Inspector.
I can do no better than echo his words, that based on the fact that the site is within the Metropolitan Green Belt, development in the area proposed "does no accord with the provisions of the local development plan”.
According to the letter I have from Rochford District Council, "planning permission will not be given save in exceptional circumstances for ………. purposes other than agriculture, and recreation, cemeteries or similar uses which are open in character. Any development which is permitted shall be of a scale, design and siting, such that the appearance of the countryside is not impaired.
Furthermore this site is part of the Green Belt urban fringe boundary and as such is particularly sensitive to “making adjoining land vulnerable to development pressures."
And note that the decision back then was based on the construction of a single property, not the 20 that are now being proposed here!
Residents objection to proposal for housing
The plot involved has site reference CFS059 and address Land at Sandhill Road, Eastwood.
On behalf of my family I wish to express our strongest possible objections to this proposal.
Some time ago we were informed by your then planning development officer, that this land was specified as GREEN BELT.
Even the extensive house building programme announced by the government, laid heavy emphasis on the availability of Brown Field sites, which must always be prioritised.
Quite apart from the breach in the Green Belt principal that this proposal would involve, the whole character of the area would be seriously and irreversibly, altered.
Additionally I strongly suggest that the local infrasture in terms of roads, schools and the like would be severely impacted particularly as even now if the a127 has a problem Gravel Road is already used as a shortcut by many diverting drivers from the Rayleigh Road looking for an alternative route.
Also it is a fact that there are many Badger sets in the proposed area which may I remind you are a protected species.
We cannot, of course know how access to the proposed development would be planned but we must stress that access via the land adjacent to TUDOR CLOSE and TUDOR MEWS, would potentially result in serious parking issues, and more importantly risk injury to a child.
Back in 2004 a planning application for this land, was rejected by the Planning Inspector.
I can do no better than echo his words, that based on the fact that the site is within the Metropolitan Green Belt, development in the area proposed "does no accord with the provisions of the local development plan”.
According to the letter I have from Rochford District Council, "planning permission will not be given save in exceptional circumstances for ………. purposes other than agriculture, and recreation, cemeteries or similar uses which are open in character. Any development which is permitted shall be of a scale, design and siting, such that the appearance of the countryside is not impaired.
Furthermore this site is part of the Green Belt urban fringe boundary and as such is particularly sensitive to “making adjoining land vulnerable to development pressures."
And note that the decision back then was based on the construction of a single property, not the 20 that are now being proposed here!