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Building on the Garden centre site and the greenfield sites between Roman Road and the A12(128 and 079a fig 7.2) is bound to cause significant and ongoing disruption to all existing residents of Ingatestone and Mountnessing.

The introduction of this volume of households will surely place an unbearable strain on the existing transport infrastructure - parking at Ingatestone station is already problematic and seats on the train practically non-existent. Further the educational, medical and social infrastructure of Ingatestone and Mountnessing will also be sorely tested by the introduction of this volume of households.

The volume of traffic running through Ingatestone High St already leads to congestion and danger to pedestrians - this will only increase with the introduction of more households and 'employment' property. There's very limited parking in the centre of the village already and competition for those places will only increase - with out any increase in provision (not practically possible) there will simply be an increase in cars parking outside legally specified parking areas.

Clearly any significant construction project is also going to add to traffic levels with lorries, tippers and all manner of heavy machinery all converging on a very small section of Roman Rd which is going to severely influence traffic and air pollution levels - not to mention the ongoing noise pollution from the construction work itself.