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I wish to strongly object to the proposed development for houses to be built on the greenfield land space adjacent to Priests Lane.

Priests Lane is an extremely busy and also congested road especially at school and 'rush hour' time in the morning and evening peak. The road is narrow in places, restricted in width with numerous curves. There is frequent parking on the Brentwood part of the road in the direction from Friars Avenue both where parking restrictions are present and where there are cars, delivery vans and builders' vehicles frequently parked half on the pavement / road causing obstruction to pedestrian traffic trying to pass often alongside a front garden hedge or wall. (Little if any parking enforcement takes place as this is an everyday occurrence)

There have been numerous vehicle accidents where excessive speed has been a factor together combined with the restricted width of the road in places. The volume of vehicles and their speed vehicles can make accessing and exiting one's own driveway whether as a pedestrian or in a vehicle difficult with restricted sightlines. More housing and associated traffic movements will exacerbate this problem.

I believe all the intended access routes to the proposed development site have their shortcomings with two viz St. Andrews Place and Bishops Walk being on bends and the third being very close to Glanthams Road with vehicle movements in and out.

I have lived in Priests Lane for most of my life and am sure a better less intensive use could be made of this green open space land. I understand planning permission has previously been refused by the Council and don't agree that the space should now be put forward as part of the LDP. I and many others think it one of the least suitable proposed development sites as the neighbourhood will suffer detrimentally.