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West Horndon proposed development

I appreciate that Brentwood Council have to find land for 3000 homes to accommodate the government guide lines. The 500 homes proposed for West Horndon Industrial Estate is fee sable due to the Industrial site getting bigger wanting a more desirable location for units and transport. West Horndon has approximately 800 homes many families living their for years. The 1000 homes which you propose is in green belt land which floods occasionally when ditches overflow with heavy rain or A127 road floods. I know this because I live at the top end of Thorndon Ave and our Gardens and fields at back of us are under water. You are proposing a 200% increase in our village also the whole of Brentwood has many villages with green belt land around them ,how come they are not getting there share and you want to put 43% of your new homes in West Horndon .Having looked at the proposed site for a Gypsy site at Thorndon Park A127 do you honestly believe people will want to buy a new home in view of a Gypsy site or do you think people will want to visit Thorndon Park and leave there cars next to a Gypsy site ,even though I know Romany Gypsy's clean and trustworthy there are a lot of other travellers that are not. The slip road on the flyover at A127 going to Basildon Southend you have just given permission for a Boot sale every week why couldn't the Gypsy camp go there instead of next to a park .I'm sure they would prefer it because they like being on there own. With all the villages in Brentwood are they having Gypsy sites and 1500 homes built destroying the environment and a village that has been here since Henry the 8th.