Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14507
Received: 21/03/2016
Respondent: Mr Darren Bryanton
The stream that passes through the site often floods onto Burnthouse Lane due to debris from the Garden Centre building up in the drains. This could get worse with the building work and completed development.
Concerned that trees on the site will be removed causing more flooding as a result.
Adjoining land often has large pools of water on it after heavy rainfall.
Concerned the excessive and fast traffic already using Burnthouse Lane and Roman Road will increase along with cars parking here.
There is lots of wildlife on the land behind the Garden Centre which could be protected.
1) Stream - there is a stream that passes through our land and currently when there is a lot of rain, I have to rake the grill due to too many leaves and other items from the Garden Centre floating. If we are away this has flooded the drive and over spills into Burnthouse Lane. Our concern is that with building work this would cause more debris and therefore impact further on the work we have to complete and risk more flooding down the drive onto the main roads.
2) Flooding - not only do we have flooding from the stream which we believe the trees that surround the property assist greatly with. The concern is that these trees are not on our land but the Garden Centre's land. We have great concerns these will be cut down as very established and therefore our garden will become permanently flooded. Also we can see the land to the left of us and when there is a lot of rain there are extremely large pools of water where there is clearly no natural drainage.
3) Traffic - Currently there is an excess amount of traffic daily using Burnthouse Lane as a cut through. Already many of these cars speed. This will then increase the traffic on a road that is quiet narrow with cars parked. The other road of concern is Roman Road. There is again a lot of cars that speed as soon as they pass the obstacles of parking outside Heybridge estate. At weekends there is often high static traffic going to the refuge area so to add more cars going into an estate should be concerned.
4) Wildlife - there is an abundance of wildlife that use the lad behind the Garden Centre and even the train line does not put them off. I have no idea if there are any endangered species but that amount of wildlife shows that they need to go somewhere.