Object
Preferred Site Allocations 2018
Representation ID: 19110
Received: 05/04/2018
Respondent: Mr Steve Little
The current local infrastructure is busting at the seams as it is! Basildon Hospital and local doctors surgeries are struggling to cope with the growing number of patients. Current planning law appears inadequate to ensure sufficient "off-street" parking and provision of footways to cope with today's changing society! For the safety of pedestrians, housing developments should have footways on both sides of the road! As a result of such a development, I believe the current road network will be unable to cope.
I would like to strongly object to the "Dunton Hills Garden Village" development for the following reasons:
The current local infrastructure is busting at the seams as it is!
Basildon Hospital is struggling to cope with the growing number of patients coming from current new developments. DHGV is almost certainly going to take it to breaking point! Not to mention local Doctors surgeries. While I'm sure these will be part of any scheme, experience indicates they will be woefully inadequate.
The recent crop of new local developments serves to indicate that the infrastructure, and the living environment, is not fully understood by the planners/developers. Putting profit, a long way before people and the environment in which they have to live!
Current planning law appears inadequate to ensure sufficient "off-street" parking and provision of footways to cope with today's changing society! Surely, for the safety of pedestrians, housing developments should have footways on both sides of the road! Current thinking seems to be "one or none"!
As a result of such a development, I believe the current road network will be unable to cope, and will result in the existing "bottlenecks" just getting out of hand!
Lastly, 7,600 new homes is hardly a "village"!