Re: Land being offered for potential development

I am writing, again, to let you know my thoughts about possible sites being put forward to develop new house builds. Particularly:
CFS160 / CFS161 (124 houses), Hockley near water tower.
CFS074, Hawkwell, opposite Rawl Pindi Nursery (498 houses).
Adjacent site CFS194, CFS169, CFS150, CFS020 from Clements Hall to Victor Gardens, St Mary's Church to the railway line (801 houses).
CFS261 Land behind King Edmund School off Brays Lane potential (4,447 houses).
CFS094 Land West of Ash Green, Canewdon (17 houses).

Well, I am totally opposed to any of these being built on. Reasons -

CFS169 / CFS161 The road that would have to accommodate the traffic would accumulate from the 124 houses is High Road, which is already too busy now. Especially mornings and early evenings when people are coming home. It is stop start for most of the way from Bullwood Hall to the Spa.

CFS074 - The road that would be affected is B1013 (Main Road). This road carries heavy traffic. I know because I regularly try to get out from Gusted Hall Lane onto it and it takes me ages. This road then goes to Rayleigh through Hockley on the road I mentioned above or it goes to Southend via Hall Road /Cherry Orchard Way or onto the Ashingdon Road. And well - we all know what Ashingdon Road is like, so an extra 500 houses would be detrimental to say the least.

CFS194 / 196 / 150 020 - so these 800 houses would come out in Rectory Road, and B1013 as above.

CFS261 - The land behind King Edmund School. Another 4,447 houses would produce megga traffic out into the Ashingdon Road, which can no way accommodate such traffic. As you know we are all against the possible Bloor build for 600 houses for the problem with traffic, so 4,400 houses would be ridiculous.

And lastly, CFS094 Land West of Ash Green, Canewdon 17 new homes. Only last year the two developments were finished where 3 Acres and Birch Lodge were knocked down. The ones that back onto our back garden are way too close to us. We were lied to by the Council who said they had sent out 'A change to the plan' - adding onto the rear of the houses another 5 or 6 feet. Me nor my neighbours ever received anything asking if we would agree or disagree to it. Because we obviously would have been against it. So obviously it's easier to just say the letters were sent out and to not do it - then no one could disagree.

Anyway the piece of land next to them which would be in between the 'New Builds' and 'the Rectory' was, I was led to believe to be left for wildlife, but there we go.

I would have thought we would need another shop at least if we have more houses built.

We are always led to believe that there would be the appropriate infrastructure to go with any houses to be built, but it never happens. We have had many developments around Rochford area over the years. There has been the one off of Dalys Road where the hospital was. Now that was definitely a mistake to knock a hospital down.

There were some houses built off of Golden Cross Road. Then there was the "Christmas" tree farm. Plus they added more after that onto it.

Then there was the Hall Road development of 600. Initially they were going to build a school because of the number of houses, but then splitting the development to 2 developers allowed a loophole and there weren't enough houses to warrant a new school.

It's just disgusting the way they play with the loopholes. It might mean each developer has 300 houses now - but it still adds up to 600. It's just plain old common sense has gone. It's just about money money money.

It's obvious that when a lot of houses are built you have to have the infrastructure in place before hand. Boris Johnson had this in "black and white" in the 2019 Manifesto. That with any building developments you would have to make sure that the infrastructure would have to come first BEFORE anyone moved into the houses. (WHERE is the infrastructure) (there isn't any).

The roads all around Rochford can't cope with more traffic.

The holes in the roads at the moment are just appalling. Greensward Lane is just ridiculous. People just weave around them, that in itself is what we get. NO more CARS. It's impossible to make the roads any better. They are roads made way back when traffic was much lighter.

NO MORE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS

Absolutely disgraceful, think of peoples wellbeing NOT MONEY.