We have read through the plan and have the following observations/comments.

Page 17 - Mentions working alongside Neighbourhood Planning groups. Who are they and how do we contact them as there is no other information or reference we could find in the plan that would help

Infrastructure

According to this plan, and whilst the planning process links the number of houses being built with social planning e.g. schools, healthcare facilities etc, road infrastructure planning is not aligned. Decisions should not be made to increase additional numbers to the area without a strategy and an agreed plan for roads. It is clear that road infrastructure is not strategically or planned to align with the proposed increase numbers of house/people/cars coming into the area.

Within the plan where is the attention to other land infrastructure such as sewage and waters supplies given that in the last few years Rayleigh has suffered more flooding due to more concrete, drier summers and little to no thought out plan to disperse the excess water?

Surely continued house building should not go ahead at pace unless the above can be aligned?.

Housing Developments

A lot of the housing developments with planned momentum which are being carried out, now always seem to reach an advanced stage before local objections can be made; almost always resulting in a fait a compli. Why? As our council, is there not a thought as to why these decisions anger people in the community and end up causing more grief because it is not transparent? An example is the now public proposed development around Albert Road and Grove Road and surrounding farmland in Rayleigh. What role did the Neighbourhood Planning Group have in this? Again, who are they and how are they contactable?

Crime and Policing

Where in the plan is the strategy to combat excess crime which naturally happens when more people come into the area whether we like this fact or not? In fact there is no mention of Police funding at all in the plan.