Support
New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 41481
Received: 22/08/2021
Respondent: Mr Simon Brooks
I am writing to you in response to the publishing of the New Local Plan. I am compelled to conclude that Rochford Council’s approach to this proposal is deeply cynical. The scale of the proposals is enormous, but yet this plan is invisible on the council home page and takes some persistence in navigating through various pages to find it. Some of the proposals, such as concreting over Belchamps appear so far-fetched that they are being proposed knowing that they will be sacrificed to placate the public and get some of the proposals through. Also lacking is why this enormous development is needed? (A very obvious omission). I suspect that the very large number of sites have been chosen to make it difficult and time consuming to object.
I will therefore select a few sites which present the same negative outcomes. These sites are:
CFS074, 020, 150, 169, 194, 045 and 064
All of the sites give us more of the following outcomes:
1/ More traffic onto the B1013, an already congested road
2/ No infrastructure to support walking and cycling
3/ More pollution and a decrease in air quality
And less of the following:
a/ green corridors and wildlife habits
b/ footpaths, so vital for mental health in recent times
c/ More flood risk in many of them
I have lived in Hockley for 30 years and have noticed a diminution in the quality of life in the local area which has felt increasingly suburban in nature. The large increase in population has not been accompanied by any increase in amenities.
I am writing to you in response to the publishing of the New Local Plan. I am compelled to conclude that Rochford Council’s approach to this proposal is deeply cynical. The scale of the proposals is enormous, but yet this plan is invisible on the council home page and takes some persistence in navigating through various pages to find it. Some of the proposals, such as concreting over Belchamps appear so far-fetched that they are being proposed knowing that they will be sacrificed to placate the public and get some of the proposals through. Also lacking is why this enormous development is needed? (A very obvious omission). I suspect that the very large number of sites have been chosen to make it difficult and time consuming to object.
I will therefore select a few sites which present the same negative outcomes. These sites are:
CFS074, 020, 150, 169, 194, 045 and 064
All of the sites give us more of the following outcomes:
1/ More traffic onto the B1013, an already congested road
2/ No infrastructure to support walking and cycling
3/ More pollution and a decrease in air quality
And less of the following:
a/ green corridors and wildlife habits
b/ footpaths, so vital for mental health in recent times
c/ More flood risk in many of them
I have lived in Hockley for 30 years and have noticed a diminution in the quality of life in the local area which has felt increasingly suburban in nature. The large increase in population has not been accompanied by any increase in amenities.