Object

Draft Local Plan

Representation ID: 15092

Received: 28/04/2016

Respondent: Graham Palmer

Representation Summary:

I object to ANY proposals to build on greenbelt land including the planned dunton garden village, I feel the supposed need for 5000 to 6000 houses is not to cater for the existing residents in the Brentwood area but will be mostly for people coming in to the area from other places. We do not have the necessary infrastructure to support this many new residents, the roads, schools, doctors, hospitals are already struggling to cope with the needs of the existing locals

Full text:

I object to ANY proposals to build on greenbelt land including the planned dunton garden village, I feel the supposed need for 5000 to 6000 houses is not to cater for the existing residents in the Brentwood area but will be mostly for people coming in to the area from other places. We do not have the necessary infrastructure to support this many new residents, the roads, schools, doctors, hospitals are already struggling to cope with the needs of the existing locals
Brentwood cannot fulfil housing targets due to greenbelt constraints and should not consider re-designating greenbelt land as viable for development as it has done with land where the A127 meets the M25, this was supposed to be used temporarily and returned to greenbelt.
Castle Point council has refused to consider building on their greenbelt and our councillors should also refuse to build on greenbelt as it is vital to keep us from becoming an extension of London, the London Borough of Brentwood, It is also vital environmentally to help keep our air clean, the pollution in the air is already dangerously close to illegal levels