I am writing to you to STRONGLY oppose the planning options for the houses across the green land (specifically, green space and farmland) around Rayleigh.

I am aware of the government agreement to build houses across a number of councils in England, however there ARE more options available to you than those outlined in your Spatial Options Plan.

Rayleigh is a very very busy town, with a small high street, one main car park and small roads with off street parking. Traffic is awful. There are two drs surgery’s, both of which are extremely over subscribed. The town is NOT big enough to hold more housing and infrastructure. Even if more shops or surgery’s were built, how do the roads cope?

There is a better option, by building housing developments on outskirts of town, where the roads are larger and less travelled and there is much more space to develop housing.

In addition to this, your proposed options are amongst densely inhabited wildlife areas, close to Hockley Woods. Many birds and other animals have made home here and you would be destroying their habitat. Many of these habitat thrive on the outskirts of woodland, where do you expect them to go when you build of their land!?

Building as proposed on the outskirts of town, means that you are far less likely to be billing on their habitat. There is little to no woodland between Southend and Rayleigh and that around Rawreth too.

Please Reconsider your plans to build
On your proposed sites and consider larger, more sustainable new villages instead.