Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 11003
Received: 12/02/2015
Respondent: Mr and Mrs David and Alison Bowyer
Top priority otherwise you will grid lock on area which is already bursting! Hospitals, Drs and schools need to be in with these not just transport links. These are main reasons for concern. We do feel that West Horndon is treated like the poor side of Brentwood and you would rather spoil our area than any other more lucrative points on the A12 side of the Borough.
Q1: Yes.
Q2: Yes - The road and rail infrastructure not able to take any more.
Q3: Yes - Site 200 Dunton Garden Suburb would be my choice giving the buffer of land to maintain West Horndon as a village as we would like. This is why we moved here not to be a town!
Q4: Again site 200 due to new infrastructure being laid down as a new site and not making do with already crowded roads around and in West Horndon.
Q5: Yes - The A12 should have the ability to meet and help on this any suitable site should also be looked at rather than all in just one location which overpopulates.
Q6: Brownfield site should always be put ahead of Green Belt. This was done originally to protect our countryside and what live in it. I think this has been forgotten.
Q7: Yes - We do not want the existing site changed to housing but agree that any working /employment needs to be on public transport links.
Q8: Yes - We need our own shops but are happy with existing we need to make sure that our local shops stay "alive" and build these up primary.
Q9: Yes - This would be good if the Dunton Garden Suburb goes ahead as this will give access to Thorndon Park. Not so if West Horndon is developed.
Q10:
Scenic Beauty/ Attractiveness: 4
Outdoor recreation/ leisure use: 2
Wildlife Interest: 5
Historic Interest: 4
Tranquility: 5
Other - village life and feel: 5+
Q11:
Houses: 2
Commercial/ Industrial buildings: 3
Nature Reserves/ Wildlife: 3
Farmland: 4
Woodland: 2
Degraded/ Derelict/ Waste land: 1
Infrastructure: 3
Leisure/ recreation facilities: 2
Other - Cleanliness around the road coming into the village: -1
Q12: Yes - Many and what if anything West Horndon can take. We are really only two roads!
Q13: Top priority otherwise you will grid lock on area which is already bursting! Hospitals, Drs and schools need to be in with these not just transport links. These are main reasons for concern. We do feel that West Horndon is treated like the poor side of Brentwood and you would rather spoil our area than any other more lucrative points on the A12 side of the Borough.