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Taken with the additional site allocation at 077, this is a total of 96 additional dwellings in Blackmore, equal to almost an additional 25% of houses in the village, and these are proposed to be built on green belt land that should be being protected. This seems an inordinate increase on what, by most standards, is still a fairly small village. There do not appear to be any plans to create the additional infrastructure required to support such an increase, such as the number of school places (your overall plan seems to indicate you only expect 34 additional pupils in the primary school from 96 homes which is surely an underestimate), GP surgery (Deal Tree is already oversubscribed and obtaining an appointment is not easy), drainage (the system in the village is already at capacity and overflows from time to time) and transport (we only have a part-time bus service and this is constantly under review and threat by Essex County Council). In addition what provision is there for the construction traffic that will be created by such a large building project? Whilst I fully accept the need to provide more housing this should not be at such a scale as could potentially change the nature of existing communities due to the sheer number of houses proposed, and reading the full development plan there does not appear to have been an effort to fully utilise existing brown field sites before building on green belt land.