OBJECTION TO ANY MORE DEVELOPMENT IN GREAT WAKERING

I would like to express significant objection to any additional planned development in or around Great Wakering.

Summary


How can Great Wakering Village cope with any more development?


Context


Wakering Primary Academy is already full and has had incidents of siblings being separated to different schools due to lack of available spaces in Wakering Primary Academy.


The Wakering Doctors Surgery is overwhelmed (check current waiting times for GP appointments as evidence of this)

Traffic volumes are already causing severe congestion around busy periods with the school run to Wakering Primary causing health and safety issues for both parents and young children alike, examples being parents forced to park directly on pavements during drop offs and pick ups due to limited space.
This planned development could see a possible 600 extra cars in a village simply unable to cope now so the question must be asked: how is this even being considered?


Local Plan - Rochford Council


From the plans shared publicly to date the development proposal appears to be targeted on green belt land, the legality of which (unless there has been a change in HMG legislation) is open to challenge in court and therefore should be reviewed independently before proceeding any further.


There are no plans to increase the infrastructure in Great Wakering therefore the support to these new builds in Great Wakering is simply nonexistent. Notwithstanding this the following new builds have still been proposed;


Star Lane. 270 builds
Little Wakering Road. 120 builds
Alexander Street. 25 builds
This amounts to 315 in total

I look forward to hearing more on this issue either directly from yourselves or through further public consultation before this is escalated to our elected MP.