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I visited your local presentation in the Baytree Centre on Saturday 3rd March and spoke to one of your staff regarding the Officers Meadow Shenfield location adjacent to Chelmsford Road and the open space in Alexander Lane location.
Firstly Officers Meadow, The Chelmsford Roads sewerage arrangements for the existing properties from Alexander Lane to the A12 Roundabout, are fed via a small pumping station across the Shenfield School Playing fields through my garden and discharging into the main sewer in Oliver Road. Please see the attached letters from 1974.
In the event that Officers Meadow is developed with a significant increase in housing the existing sewage system will obviously be inadequate and will be a very costly problem to overcome hopefully using a different route.
Secondly the open space at the back of the school playing field adjacent to Alexander Lane was I believe given to the people of Shenfield by the Courage Family for recreational purposes.
This being the case it is not available for development.
I have lived in Oliver Road since 1973 and was part of the residents association that contested the bus route to Shenfield station in 1979/80, which we lost at the time only for the route to be cancelled within a year due to lack of use. Incidentally the bus stops are still there today having not been used for over 38 years.
I hope you find my comments useful especially the attached letters regarding the existing pumping station discharge point in Oliver Road.