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I wish to record my objection to the development of Dunton Hills Garden Village due to its size and impact on the area.

Essex is already full and the infrastructure cannot handle the development proposed.

There are already plans for approximately 90,000 homes in the nearby area and the area is already struggling to cope with the current population.

The site is on green belt land and should be protected - wildlife and ecosystems are being destroyed and restricted all over the county.

The A127 struggles with the current traffic load. It is not a trunk road and is not eligible for government funding so no meaningful improvements will be made to improve the traffic flow. Over the last two weeks local papers have reported ideas for a congestion charge and report pollution issues due to the current traffic load.

Basildon hospital is currently under staffed and underfunded, services are struggling and again local press constantly report serious incidents and mistakes due to over work. Parking is impossible with the current patients. Doctors surgeries have closed in many parts of Essex and Orsett hospital is set to close. New hospitals and resources will take forever and should be in place ready for population expansion, not put in after the event.

Development on the proposed scale will primarily affect other councils and will add further pressures on them.

Train services are currently inadequate and cannot cope with additional passengers. They will also get extra pressure from extra passengers up the line.

The figures for population expansion are to high and have been recently evaluated to be 15% lower that expected, therefore numbers of houses should be reduced by the same amount.

Travellers - Essex is currently blighted by travellers taking advantage and government laws need to be updated to keep them under control. We already have large traveller sites and they are now creating illegal ones more and more often. Brentwood need to put sufficient spaces in, in line with targets but numbers need to be reduced and controlled. Travellers should abide by common law and not be allowed to flaunt it.

Policing, ambulance and fire services are under resourced as it is, they cannot handle the continual increase in population without lives being put in danger.

Flooding is already a concern for the area but more roads drives gardens and roofs will only add to the problem.


ESSEX IS ALREADY FULL AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WILL PUT LIVES AT RISK.