New Allocations Development Plan - CFS192, CFS004, CFS060, CFS071, CFS103, CFS115, CFS142, CFS258

If one of our local Councillors had not made us aware of the Spatial Options Development, we would not know that these meetings have already been carried out with an incredibly vast area of Great & Little Wakering, Barling and Rochford etc having far too many new development areas already! We have received no information via post or email to have our say? How come? That means virtually no one is likely to be aware and have their say before 8th September? Is it already a given this will happen without local residents input as to why these cannot go ahead? Not everyone has the time to keep up on Facebook posts about these proposals! If a neighbour wishes to put a loft conversion in or an outbuilding they have to ask permission beforehand. However, in the event no neighbour wants it... they don’t get to go ahead! So why have we not been made aware earlier that so many of these proposals are already agreed without our knowledge or permission?

I cannot begin to imagine to be honest! The development alone at Star Lane increased a second time and now a further development off Barrow Hall lane makes it ridiculously busy to move around our wonderful village and forget trying to get an appointment at the Doctors, they are already overstretched! The Schools cannot take the current pupils as there are too many children in the area and it is unfair to send brothers and sisters to different schools as there is no room for them in “Our Catchment Schools”! That is not progress. What is in place for more doctors surgeries and schools. The current developments in Rochford will end up taking the spaces our children were destined for with King Edmund School... There are no plans for the infrastructure just more houses, houses and houses! Usually with only one or two car parking spaces... where are all these extra cars going to park. Little Wakering Road is already a race and rat trap, thanks to the developers.

I do understand that progress needs to happen, but enough is enough. We have sufficient already by choosing Wakering and Barling with only one route out of the village is beggars belief! I carry out deliveries for our company and there are so many more options further out that are not congested and lead directly to the main roads i.e. A127, A12 and A13. If these allocated plots go ahead. You will cause complete gridlock for the residents already living here, increase stress and mental health. We had our refuse tip taken away and now have to drive to Rayleigh, 12 miles away and already queue for several hours! The apparent privilege of the use of Southend was also taken away too, which is less than 3 miles away. This makes no environmental sense to increase fuel, sewage and water use. The two refuse lorries at the Rec, once a month, don’t have enough room for everyone and only take black sacks. The traffic backs up now; not to mention the fly tipping that happens because it is overloaded. The BT Station at the beginning of Star Lane is also overloaded! It literally needs to be completely replaced and updated. The new housing estate in Star Lane have better internet than the local houses with the increased boxes for them!!!!. It is utter madness to consider any further sites for development. The weekly refuse collections create merry hell and to increase more development... I actually have no words!

We are lucky to back onto fields and have seen them go from a turf company to stables and thoroughly enjoy watching the horses roam free. Where will they go? You will be putting another business out and leaving no green land... where will these horse have a home? Every year we have Green Woodpeckers come to the field we back on to and one pair nest in the area that backs onto our garden. The Pheasants and Partridge come in their pairs, families and sometimes 12 at a time. We have hedgehogs too. So are you really happy to make all these homeless, it was their home first? We paid a premium to live this side of the road and for this view, which has been our home for 20 years (we have lived in this village for 32 years). By building on these fields behind us, which I believe is plot CFS192 will also reduce the value of our lovely home and all those backing on to these fields. This is definitely not progress, this is destroying a village and wildlife we are accustomed to and peoples mental health and well being just to line the pockets of the land owners and developers who don’t live in the area. For years we have asked to purchase extra land along with all our neighbours and were told they will never sell! So why are they selling so much land to so called development now?

Please take this as mine and my families and neighbours say to NO more development of our Village. It literally cannot cope! Nor can I!

I have spent the weekend reviewing all the plans put forward for spatial options and I am actually shocked that every piece of green land is apparently “deliverable”. Little Wakering Road, where we live is one road and there are 5 separate plans with a total of 607 houses. 423 are planned in the fields behind us. Why so many? 818 in total for Little Wakering & Barling. We don’t even have 423 houses in this road to more than double! We will literally never get out of the village or off our driveways! This is listed as deliverable? We pay a high premium for our Home Insurance because it is high risk flood area, because it is was flooded with most of the road and fields so how can these now be deliverable? Two houses are being built just up the road to us on a previous plot that the houses burned down. That alone caused havoc with traffic lights for all the gas, electricity and water to be put in and that was just two houses. Barrow Hall caused road closures and inane amount of time spent with traffic lights while their services were put in!

Little Wakering - 818 houses, 8 Plan No's
Great wakering - 2,456 houses, 11 Plan No's
Rochford & Ashingdon - 10,707 houses, 63 Plan No's
North Southend (our exit out of Wakering & Barling!!!) All land North of Bournes Green Chase, 19,512 houses, 29 Separate Plan No's
All these are from small B roads too!!!

Between Barling, Great & Little Wakering, Rochford & Ashingdon, Rayleigh & Rawreth, Hockley & Hawkwell, Hullbridge, Stambrdige, Paglesham, & Canewdon there is a whopping 55,926 houses proposed with around 2,000 not deliverable. So many are on the same plots with different plan numbers. This most likely means it is a way of getting around not having to put a new school or more infrastructure in place. There will be no green land left. What will happen to the farms, we are being recommended to eat more plant based. That will never happen if all the green land goes!

What are the plans for new infrastructure? Doctors, Schools, services etc? There is no mention of this at all? Nor is there any details of when these plans are scheduled to go ahead and I would like to know when and if the ones I have mentioned above will/ will not be going ahead with dates etc.

Sorry to harp on, but this really is madness not progress!