Support
New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 43671
Received: 01/09/2021
Respondent: Rosemary Debenham
CFS260D, CFS192, CFS260O
I live in Havenside backing onto one of the fields currently under consideration. There is a large amount of wildlife in the hedgerow and field there. These include various birds from wood pigeons, pheasant etc., right down to wrens. I also have sighted sparrow hawks, kestrels and a buzzard over that field. There are also foxes and possibly badgers too.
There is no access from Little Wakering Road to that field apart from a driveway along the side of the Castle Pub and Havenside is far too narrow to provide any access via there. My end of that field is also prone to flooding in winter.
The developments proposed along Barrow Hall Road is far too much for a narrow country lane to cope with. There are places along there where it would be impossible to widen it even if you wanted too. My car has been hit along there destroying a door mirror and those that do use it seen to think its a race track. It is far too narrow for 2 large cars to pass each other and if you meet a lorry etc then its impossible to pass.
The village simply does not have the infrastructure to support all these new houses. Each house potentially has 2 plus children requiring school places. Each house potentially has 4 plus people requiring a doctor, and each house potentially has 2 cars clogging up our very narrow roads in and out of the village.
That's not forgetting the sewage system only has, I believe, 1 main pipe out of the village.
Barling Magna gets flooded every winter due to drains not being able to cope with wet weather. Indeed, last winter my daughter who lives there was unable to use her toilet as the waste in the sewers was backed up and she ended up with sewage in her front garden. Not a healthy state for a family of 5. I earnestly request you look further into other sites with better infrastructure than here.
I also feel that there has been no consideration for the environment or the local community.
All I can see is landowners out for the money they can get if their land has planning permission which will in no doubt double its value from farmland. The developers make big fat profits and the local community gain nothing as the village will no longer be a village.
Also, if the farmland is sold off then that will have an effect on the ability of this country to produce enough food here in the UK to feed the population. If we have to import more then our carbon footprint will be higher, contributing to the escalation of climate change. This is a time when we should be thinking of reducing it by producing more food here in the UK so as no to import so much, thus reducing our carbon footprint.
The pollination, i.e., bees etc., are dying off as we strip the land of natural habitats.
Are we going to end up in a concrete jungle living off synthetically produced food as we have built on all our land and destroyed our natural wildlife habitats?
You need to seriously think of its long term effect on the environment and not just the money for building all these homes!!!
CFS260D, CFS192, CFS260O
I live in Havenside backing onto one of the fields currently under consideration. There is a large amount of wildlife in the hedgerow and field there. These include various birds from wood pigeons, pheasant etc., right down to wrens. I also have sighted sparrow hawks, kestrels and a buzzard over that field. There are also foxes and possibly badgers too.
There is no access from Little Wakering Road to that field apart from a driveway along the side of the Castle Pub and Havenside is far too narrow to provide any access via there. My end of that field is also prone to flooding in winter.
The developments proposed along Barrow Hall Road is far too much for a narrow country lane to cope with. There are places along there where it would be impossible to widen it even if you wanted too. My car has been hit along there destroying a door mirror and those that do use it seen to think its a race track. It is far too narrow for 2 large cars to pass each other and if you meet a lorry etc then its impossible to pass.
The village simply does not have the infrastructure to support all these new houses. Each house potentially has 2 plus children requiring school places. Each house potentially has 4 plus people requiring a doctor, and each house potentially has 2 cars clogging up our very narrow roads in and out of the village.
That's not forgetting the sewage system only has, I believe, 1 main pipe out of the village.
Barling Magna gets flooded every winter due to drains not being able to cope with wet weather. Indeed, last winter my daughter who lives there was unable to use her toilet as the waste in the sewers was backed up and she ended up with sewage in her front garden. Not a healthy state for a family of 5. I earnestly request you look further into other sites with better infrastructure than here.
I also feel that there has been no consideration for the environment or the local community.
All I can see is landowners out for the money they can get if their land has planning permission which will in no doubt double its value from farmland. The developers make big fat profits and the local community gain nothing as the village will no longer be a village.
Also, if the farmland is sold off then that will have an effect on the ability of this country to produce enough food here in the UK to feed the population. If we have to import more then our carbon footprint will be higher, contributing to the escalation of climate change. This is a time when we should be thinking of reducing it by producing more food here in the UK so as no to import so much, thus reducing our carbon footprint.
The pollination, i.e., bees etc., are dying off as we strip the land of natural habitats.
Are we going to end up in a concrete jungle living off synthetically produced food as we have built on all our land and destroyed our natural wildlife habitats?
You need to seriously think of its long term effect on the environment and not just the money for building all these homes!!!