Object
New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 43598
Received: 22/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Norman Bright
The maps were misleading – they overlap each other and the name of ‘stonebridge and sutton’ includes parts of Great Wakering and Barling yet there was a separate map? So my comments refer to both these areas as a whole:
Roads cannot cope as it is – even if you built a larger or new road the country lanes will still have an increase in traffic which they cannot already cope with. Cars are often in ditches and that is now so would only get worse. Heavy lorries cause blocked roads so emergency vehicles often have trouble getting in and out of the village.
Sutton road is gridlocked every day most of the day so totally unsuitable for any more development. The chaos and disruption the barrow hall estate has on residents already.
In 1953 wakering was flooded – this will happen again, and will increase with global warming so unsuitable for development. Many homes here suffer already from surface water flooding and if more development were to come forward this will only get worse.
Loss of open space, increase in poor air quality, loss of wildlife, impact on eco-system, loss of farmland (at a time when we may need more local produce) loss of farming employment.
More people will mean more crime, more anti-social behaviour, more noise, more car emissions which will all have a negative impact on residents and their health.
If you have to build it needs to be somewhere north of the district near the A127 or rail links – not in a village or where roads cannot already cope (can cannot be improved)
The maps were misleading – they overlap each other and the name of ‘stonebridge and sutton’ includes parts of Great Wakering and Barling yet there was a separate map? So my comments refer to both these areas as a whole:
Roads cannot cope as it is – even if you built a larger or new road the country lanes will still have an increase in traffic which they cannot already cope with. Cars are often in ditches and that is now so would only get worse. Heavy lorries cause blocked roads so emergency vehicles often have trouble getting in and out of the village.
Sutton road is gridlocked every day most of the day so totally unsuitable for any more development. The chaos and disruption the barrow hall estate has on residents already.
In 1953 wakering was flooded – this will happen again, and will increase with global warming so unsuitable for development. Many homes here suffer already from surface water flooding and if more development were to come forward this will only get worse.
Loss of open space, increase in poor air quality, loss of wildlife, impact on eco-system, loss of farmland (at a time when we may need more local produce) loss of farming employment.
More people will mean more crime, more anti-social behaviour, more noise, more car emissions which will all have a negative impact on residents and their health.
If you have to build it needs to be somewhere north of the district near the A127 or rail links – not in a village or where roads cannot already cope (can cannot be improved)