Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 13137
Received: 21/02/2016
Respondent: Mr James Toward
The Infrastructure of Ingatestone and Mountnessing cannot sustain a further 60 households and Mountnessing is already baring a new build burden.
[Infrastructure cannot support the additional demand such an increase in housing will deliver. The High Street is already congested and has limited free and paid parking. The addition of 60 new household's worth of vehicles will increase congestion and heighten danger to pedestrians in the centre of Ingatestone.
As a brownfield site Ref 128 should be considered at worst for like for like rebuild (light industrial).]
Ingatestone and Mountnessing cannot sustain the addition of a further 60 homes on the site of the garden centre (Site ref 128).
Train transport infrastructure (both parking at Ingatestone Station and seat availability on trains) cannot support the the additional demand such an increase in housing will deliver.
Further the Medical and Educational infrastructure of these parishes would struggle to breaking point with such an increase in demand. Clearly other services such as policing, fire services and refuse collection will also suffer an additional burden.
The High Street is already congested and has limited free and paid parking. The addition of 60 new household's worth of vehicles will increase congestion and heighten danger to pedestrians in the centre of Ingatestone.
Site traffic will add to existing congestion both through the village and in and around the Heybridge area of Ingatestone.
As a brownfield site Ref 128 should be considered at worst for like for like rebuild (light industrial) and should not add to the infrastructural burden placed on Ingatestone and Mountnessing.