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The land at Priests Lane should be removed from the local development plan. Doing this will make the local plan sound as it will negate all the issues that have described in question 5.

The plan is not sound. All transport assessments were take at times devoid of school traffic. Priests Lane is a 'residential lane' that has increasingly became a transport thoroughfare and is congested. The plan has not made itself aware of this congestion and does not take account of increased traffic that will occur due to this development and also the development of 1,000 homes in Shenfield and the Elizabeth line, so increased congestion and pollution on Priests Lane. The reasonable representations by residents that new road access along Priests Lane are hazardous have not been addressed, nor that they do not meet the requirements for safe highways. The plan does not address residents concerns that the road design is dangerous. The proposed plan for this site does not meet sustainability conditions. The Priests Lane site has been rejected a number of times in the past for users such as these described above and also because it is a valuable open urban space and should be protected as such to the benefit of current local residents. The development does not comply with the Essex design guide with respects to road and pavement width. The local plan needs to address other issues such as traffic concerns, healthcare and education needs and it does not, in relation to increased housing of this development. No specific or robust adjustment has been made tat a viable access point is viable. There are other alternative sites available that are better. The local infrastructure cannot support this development.