brentwood.gov.uk

Dear Sir / Madam,

I popped into one of the drop in sessions in a dilapidated shop near the Baytree Centre and I had a good chat with one of your staff.

It was quite informal but I still have quite a lot of questions that have not been addressed despite my many queries in my 20 years of living in Brentwood as follows:

Why is there not 2 hours parking in Brentwood like Shenfield residents enjoy?

why are there no fast trains from Brentwood station despite it being the may residential area in the borough?

why no lift to platform 4 at Brentwood station?

why no foitpath to weald and throndon country parks?

why £5 to park in the above 2 parks?

why no benchmarking on parking charges compared to nearby towns like Upminster, Harold Hill, Hornchurch, Romford, Billericay, Basiodon, Grays, Epping, Lakeside for a start. For example Basildon and Romford have free parking on a Sunday so why doesn't Brentwood?

Why do you still charge to park in the evening when most towns nearby don't?

Why are you building houses on the car park in William Hunter Way, the car park is always full?

why are you building on Brentwood station car park, this will lose spaces and discourage use of the train station?

why is a green belt side at Honeypot Lane being built on? When the road is narrow and there is no bus route or doctor's surgery for these 250 new houses?

Why can't we have more Sunday bus routes in the district? There is no way of getting to Basildon, Lakeside or Southend and Chelmsford bus is only every 2 hours, Bishops Hall Estate every 2 hours and Hutton Circular every 2 hours, the only decent bus is the 498 to Romford still only every 30 minutes though!

Why can't Brentwoid folk use oyster cards on all the buses like you can on the train?

why is there a 4 zone difference between Brentwood and Harold Wood? It is only 3 miles and not worth a £1,000 a year for such a short journey, equally why is the fare from Brentwood to Shenfiekd for 1.5 miles £600 a year and to Harold Wood for 4.5 miles £1,600 a year, why do you allow TfL and the DfT to milk Brentwood residents to subsidise London people?

why don't the new crossrail trains have softer seats and loos on them?

why are there hardly any buses to get to Shenfield to access the 14 trains per hour? All the buses go to Brentwood station where there is only 6 an hour which are all slow and don't even go beyond Shenfield, annoyingly? !?!

why are 20 mph speed limits not enforced on residential roads?

why is there no parking enforcement on law breakers who park on double yellow lines after 6pm or all day Sunday, yet you choose to send out peaked cap people to put tickets on cars in the town centre car park, double standard or what?

i cannot access my garage due to inconsiderate oiks in the flats behing my house obstructing my garage, and the peaked cap gestapo say they are unable to do anything why?

Why no buses on the weald road to access weald country park and old macdonalds farm, and why no hail and ride bus between ongar road and weald road for non drivers and disabled?

why has the council done nothing to stop the re routing of 37 bus and cutting of other routes i.e, to Harlow, Lakeside, Stanstead Airport and Epping?

That is all folks!

Many thanks