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Our house (location given). The traffic on the road during peak periods, such as school run, is so bad that many times I have difficulty getting off my drive onto the road, with the traffic queuing all the way from the high road, past the hospital to Middleton Road. By adding to this, the proposal to build 55 dwellings in Crescent Drive (which will probably represent more than 55 cars) presents a severe safety risk at peak times coupled with its potential disrupting affect for the hospital traffic. Similarly with Priest's Lane. The queues in the morning or evening trying to get out of, or into, respectively, the road are horrendous, particularly so at the Brentwood School end but also seriously affecting the junction with the Ingrave Road, which you can see from your offices! Similarly with the Shenfield Station end where it joins the main road as Friars Avenue and causes disruption because of the continuous queuing along the main road, past the station. Brentwood and Shenfield both have significant parking problems with existing traffic, with particularly severe issues at peak times. To build without significant investment in the necessary infrastructure to cope with the inevitable consequences, such as traffic and parking, will destroy the nature of both towns. It will turn the towns into car parks! To put 7000 homes in the Brentwood and Shenfield area over 5 years, is a recipe for disaster. The simple logistics of building the houses will in itself cause the towns problems for 5 years. The traffic increase will keep the towns in permanent gridlock, increase the likelihood of accidents throughout the neighbourhoods and make the towns environmental disaster areas.