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My objection to this site is on the grounds of local infrastructure.
Schools, doctors surgeries and the like can be built, maybe even within the site itself, but the infrastructure of roads and junctions cannot easily be changed.

Whereas roads such as Honeypot Lane can be widened to relive local problems which are currently experienced, other bits of road infrastructure in the locality cannot easily and cost-effectively be so altered.

I speak about this such as:
(1) the Honeypot Lane/London Rood/Kavanaghs Road junction, which would require a significant land grab to improve the junction;
(2) the condition of London Road down towards the M25 junction which cannot easily be improved;
(3) the condition of Weald Road towards the town which also cannot easily be improved.

The result is that the local roads, notably Selwood Road, Langley Drive and the roads on the Homesteads estate will become rat runs. These roads were built as residential roads back in the 1950s when the use of cars was no where near what is is today and will not take account of an extra (say) 400 cars using them to get in and out of this new estate. They are just not wide enough.
Local inhabitants bought houses in this area because of its amenities, not to become overburdened with traffic.

Then there is the fact that at rush hours now, London Road and the town are choked with traffic; this will become much worse if such an estate is built and journey times will be greatly increased.

Brentwood is a country town and was not built for vast estates close by the town centre. This development will contribute towards the destruction of the nature of the town and its immediate environs as we know it now. These houses should be put somewhere where the effect of the cars will be less than here.