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New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 43709
Received: 01/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Peter Collins
The consultation held recently at the Fire Station, Hockley did nothing to reassure me that we will not be faced with the possibility of yet more development, no doubt without any additional infrastructure. It seems developers are able to re-engage on, including schools, medical surgeries, flood protection, etc., to large housing projects without any control.
We then have the added serious problem of ever increasing traffic volumes, and these development proposals all seem to involve feeding traffic onto the already congested B1013. I acknowledge there is a need for some housing but is it not time that RDC challenged the developers and government and at the very least to argue enough is enough and reduce the amount of development to a sensible level. I would also ask whether RDC has a chartered Ecologist following the mandatory Biodiversity Metric 3.0 launched by the Government. All large developments must provide Biodiversity nett gain leaving nature better off. Councils will still be able to reject proposals that threaten the ecology of the area.
The consultation held recently at the Fire Station, Hockley did nothing to reassure me that we will not be faced with the possibility of yet more development, no doubt without any additional infrastructure. It seems developers are able to re-engage on, including schools, medical surgeries, flood protection, etc., to large housing projects without any control.
We then have the added serious problem of ever increasing traffic volumes, and these development proposals all seem to involve feeding traffic onto the already congested B1013. I acknowledge there is a need for some housing but is it not time that RDC challenged the developers and government and at the very least to argue enough is enough and reduce the amount of development to a sensible level. I would also ask whether RDC has a chartered Ecologist following the mandatory Biodiversity Metric 3.0 launched by the Government. All large developments must provide Biodiversity nett gain leaving nature better off. Councils will still be able to reject proposals that threaten the ecology of the area.