Object
Preferred Site Allocations 2018
Representation ID: 17969
Received: 22/02/2018
Respondent: Mrs Barbara Marler
The local infrastructure is insufficient to support the extra homes. The Doddinghurst Road is a two-lane road, incapable of coping with the extra traffic. Development of the nature reserve will follow, leading to more road congestion and overcrowding in local schools.
My main concern is basic infrastructure. Karen Close and Russell Close both ultimately flow onto the Doddinghurst Road. How can the traffic from a further 200 homes be absorbed? At that point in the road, cars are parked from the bridge over the A12 to the corner of Rushdene Road and it is very difficult to exit from Rushdene Road onto the Doddinghurst Road as the line of sight is obscured and also there is only room for one lane of traffic. Presumably no-one who helped draw up the local plan has ever tried to travel from this side of Brentwood to the High Street or the station at busy times. Following this, permission will be given for Tesco to sell the land on which the animal sanctuary resides for a further 400 homes, resulting in mayhem, not only on the Doddinghurst Road, but also, presumably, on Sawyers Hall Lane where there are five schools, which are, I imagine, supposed to absorb the children from these homes.