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Dear local planning committee
As a local resistant of Priests Lane on behalf of my family i would like to voice our strong objection to the proposal of new housing on the site off of Priests Lane. I have lived on the road for over 20 years and have experienced first hand the significant increase in traffic and crime in recent years. If there are long queues of traffic from Middleton Hall Road (frequent car accidents) then motorists take the opportunity to speed down what used to be a nice local road, plus the local burglaries. Further housing would not bring any benefit to the area, simply drive local residents away.

In just the past two days, traffic in the mornings as run from Middleton Hall lane, down Priests Lane to Bishops Walk and then from Shenfield Common down to near the A127. How on earth could you possibly consider adding 95 further houses to this, it simply isn't feasible for those living locally or those already commuting into the area?
There are not the resources locally to cope with further housing, and the recent attempts by the local council to repair the road and pavements are evident that by using a cheap contractor the road surface is so poor you can already see the original tarmac in parts. It's terrible that these attempts to correct what should have been done over the years are now only being done to pave the way for the development. The local doctors surgeries cannot cope now how can they possibly take on more, our local schools are stretched and class numbers on the increase how can they accommodate more pupils.
For the sake of our local area, please consider the local residents before being swayed by the developers money which will destroy our community, how we live, commute and work in the area.
Thank you in advance for at the very least logging this as a family strongly against this development.