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New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 41416
Received: 22/08/2021
Respondent: Barbara Beer
• All of our agricultural land and greenbelt is currently essential for their allotted purposes. To repurpose any of this land for building development would have a significant negative impact on the Rochford community going forward.
• Using any of the sites along Shopland would necessitate extra traffic feeding into Sutton Rd and thence into Ashingdon Rd. This road has already been confirmed as being seriously congested. Little Wakering Rd effectively functions as one lane only due to residents needing to park kerb side. It would not accommodate a substantial increase in traffic either.
• Wakering and Barling are situated on a creek. In Kimberley Rd there has already been flooding where the current drainage system has failed. According to Anglia Water, this flooding is largely a result of residents paving over their frontage for car parking. One can only imagine the negative impact of significant building over our fields which act as a natural soak away. And we are warned that due to climate change we can expect higher rainfall (something which has been evident the last 2 winters and now this summer too).
• Building 7200 more homes would necessitate additionally the building of new schools, medical centres, a hospital, more roads and rob us of even more of our green spaces. For the same reasons I have stated we cannot entertain this level of development.
• These targets are in opposition to the government’s commitment to bio diversity, zero carbon emissions and most significantly, levelling up the country! ECC and District Councils must all go back to Westminster and point out the direct contradiction between their alleged policies and these actions. Please ask them to reassess targets as they have done for other areas (York!). They must focus this development in the North of England!
If there is one thing we can do to improve our area radically in my opinion, it would be to make our roads more user friendly to cyclists, pedestrians and any local slow moving traffic.
Cycling is not only good for us, it is good for the planet and good for local economies. Studies have shown cyclists shop locally and make great use of local facilities for pit stops and refreshments. It needs to be actively encouraged in all areas of the community.
Spatial Options Consultation The Wakerings & Barling
• All of our agricultural land and greenbelt is currently essential for their allotted purposes. To repurpose any of this land for building development would have a significant negative impact on the Rochford community going forward.
• Using any of the sites along Shopland would necessitate extra traffic feeding into Sutton Rd and thence into Ashingdon Rd. This road has already been confirmed as being seriously congested. Little Wakering Rd effectively functions as one lane only due to residents needing to park kerb side. It would not accommodate a substantial increase in traffic either.
• Wakering and Barling are situated on a creek. In Kimberley Rd there has already been flooding where the current drainage system has failed. According to Anglia Water, this flooding is largely a result of residents paving over their frontage for car parking. One can only imagine the negative impact of significant building over our fields which act as a natural soak away. And we are warned that due to climate change we can expect higher rainfall (something which has been evident the last 2 winters and now this summer too).
• Building 7200 more homes would necessitate additionally the building of new schools, medical centres, a hospital, more roads and rob us of even more of our green spaces. For the same reasons I have stated we cannot entertain this level of development.
• These targets are in opposition to the government’s commitment to bio diversity, zero carbon emissions and most significantly, levelling up the country! ECC and District Councils must all go back to Westminster and point out the direct contradiction between their alleged policies and these actions. Please ask them to reassess targets as they have done for other areas (York!). They must focus this development in the North of England!
If there is one thing we can do to improve our area radically in my opinion, it would be to make our roads more user friendly to cyclists, pedestrians and any local slow moving traffic.
Cycling is not only good for us, it is good for the planet and good for local economies. Studies have shown cyclists shop locally and make great use of local facilities for pit stops and refreshments. It needs to be actively encouraged in all areas of the community.