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Q1: No - Small villages north of the A12 do not have adequate transport links. Increasing housing in Blackmore by 10% will change the aesthetics of the village forever and consequently will no longer be a village.

Q2: Yes.

Q3: Yes - Blackmore - Sewage capacity unavailable at one of these sites. Phone lines are at capacity at Orchard Piece. The Primary School is at capacity. The village roads are not able to cope with increased car use. The wildlife will suffer - barn owls, little owls and tawny owls all present behind Orchard Piece.

Q4: The A127 corridor. It contains the single settlement of Horndon and not several and the A12 and nor them villages cannot cope with any more traffic congestion, including Brentwood through the town and Ongar Road. Services would suffer more and they are already strained.

Q5: No - Again, services and infrastructure in these surrounding areas are already at or over coping capacity. The towns and villages around these areas are developed enough, the traffic is always built up, roads unable to cope, queues into small towns built up throughout the day, schools already at capacity, services full and don't run enough.

Q6: Neither option is preferable, constraining opportunity for growth is a need in some places to preserve our Green Belt land, its wildlife, asset to villages and landscape character. The areas just aren't suitable, already constrained transport links, sewage at capacity, phone lines at capacity, schools at capacity, wildlife already suffering in the UK. The areas could not cope!

Q7: Between Thurrock, Basildon and Havering where highways and towns are less congested than A12 and north, perhaps.

Q8: Yes.

Q9: No.

Q10:
Scenic Beauty/Attractiveness: 5
Outdoor Recreation/Leisure Use: 4
Wildlife Interest: 5
Historic Interest: 5
Tranquility: 5

Q11:
Houses: 3
Commercial/ Industrial buildings: 1
Nature Reserves/ Wildlife: 4
Farmland: 4
Woodland: 4
Degraded/ Derelict/ Waste land: 2
Infrastructure: 2
Leisure/ Recreation Facilities: 3

Q12: Brentwood Borough is beautiful and attractive because of its rural areas and wildlife. Please don't take this away and squander its environment and the quality of life it offers by developing the areas considered treasures to so many.

Q13: Green infrastructure.