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I, like virtually every other resident in the village, object very strongly to the proposed plans for development in the fields to the West of the village.
People have purchased their homes in West Horndon because they like village life. If they wanted town life they would have gone elsewhere and town is exactly what is being proposed.
I was always under the impression that the land, that will be used, was green belt land and as such could not be used for building on and nature will be sorely affected. Our lanes are certainly not suitable for such large usage and to turn onto the A127 from one of the sides roads is dangerous. Will there be slip roads made available? The increase of vehicles is obviously going to be tremendous.
Our Doctors will not be able to cope. It is often impossible to get an appointment now when wanted. Our school is certainly not large enough so I can only assume another one will be built. When you consider that people drive their children to school now there will have to be even more transport to one further away.
We do not have that many trains stop here in comparison with other stations which will cause more problems and the buses we have now go only to Brentwood, the ones to Basildon and Upminster being cancelled years ago.
I have seen the other possible sites on the plans which are only minute in comparison to the one proposed to the one proposed here why is West Horndon, yet again, being made to suffer.
Yes it would be nice to get rid of the large vehicles which come through the village but that is the only benefit I can see and people will lose their local jobs on the demolition of the industrial estate. But what about the large vehicles, some of which are bound to come through the village during building works and to get to the new site after completion especially if new shops are built.
I have lived here since 1956 and the new flats that have recently been built do not fit a country village what you are intending is even much worse.