Firstly your website is not very clear as to how you are meant to participate in the online consultation.

I want to express concerns over the proposed development of land north of Merryfields Avenue. I live in Clayspring Close so will be directly impacted by this development.

The RDC strategic priority 5; ‘making suitable and sufficient provision for climate change mitigation and adaptation, conservation and enhancement of the historic and natural environment including landscape.’ Especially Strategic objective 20; ‘to protect, maintain and enhance our districts natural environment’ are in contradiction to this proposed development.

This land is a woodland, although privately owned and inaccessible to the public, it is still essential that it is preserved. This is of environmental and ecological importance. It is also an area which backs onto the Maryland’s nature reserve which will be ruined by the building of these houses.

The most worrying thing is that work on this area has already commenced, there are work trucks arriving most days clearly carrying building material and building noise can be heard from this area.