I would like to ask what is in it for Rochford people? After all, it is our council that has the lead in the planning applications, not Southend Council.

The fields between the rail track and Southend Road, after the bridge, are often touted as being the green belt, a wedge to act as a buffer to
restrict the effects of the airport noise/pollution on the local residents.

This is the Green Belt that will not be allowed to have the car parks on them, the Green Belt that cannot be touched and is safe from
development.

This would be the fields where they have already started to chop down the trees and have diggers digging up the grass and reducing the land that
the horses can use.

If anyone has been using the road to the A127 that the freight trucks will use, you may have noticed that it is now double yellow lined.

This is Rochford Road, from the Bell/A127 towards the airport, the road that has always had local residents' cars and vans parked there.

It would seem that for years the buses managed to get up and down satisfactorily. The big blue earth moving trucks of the Rochford firm JFT (?) manage satisfactorily, the car transporters, with trailers going to the scrap yards managed satisfactorily.

Does, therefore, the professional transport firm of Eddie Stobart Transport envisage
a large increase in Heavy Goods traffic?

I think these are just small steps that get sneaked in as the councils
already have decided that they will get their way.