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I am writing to oppose against the Local Development Plan for West Horndon. My family and I moved to the village for exactly that reason, village life, I have been working on the Industrial Park in West Horndon for many years and fell in love with the charm and character that West Horndon village offers. I firmly believe the LDP will have a major impact on the village and its residents; it will ruin and cause much pressure to the village, residents, wildlife and surrounding services.

I think that building on Metropolitan Green Belt land is a dangerous move. Green Belt has always been in existence to provide safeguard to the surrounding countryside and neighbouring areas, especially the wildlife. West Horndon has many different species of wildlife in the surrounding fields and these should be protected and not destroyed for redevelopment of land.

I feel the proposal of changing the West Horndon Industrial Park into dwellings is not the right choice, by moving the industrial park will mean the local amenities i.e. shops, post office, cafe, pub will suffer as the Industrial park brings in trade and therefore this will be a great loss to local providers. We should be encouraging employment growth to the industrial park not all businesses on the Industrial Park will benefit from relocation.


I do not agree that West Horndon is a suitable site for the size of the development that the LDP has planned, the proposal of 43% is quite a big chunk to locate into our village.

I do not think that enough careful consideration has been given to what impact it will have on the environment, surrounding area and amenities, i.e. Green Belt, flood risk, roads and junctions, schools and services G.P, buses and trains services to name but a few.

I hope the LDP plan is re-examined and that local resident's views are given full consideration, as we want to protect the village that we live in.