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Priests Lane is currently a very busy road that continues to attract more and more traffic on a weekly basis.
The road is used as a through road/ short cut for school trips to both Brentwood school & County High and also by commuting traffic causing enhanced traffic jams from Middleton Hall Lane back as far St, Andrews.
The lane is also used as a cut through / escape route when there is an incident on the A12 or Shenfield Road as the overflow traffic tries to find a quicker route through Priests Lane.
Bin collection days (Thursday & Friday) make the traffic congestion even worse.
An increase in vehicle would only result in further congestion given that the new properties would be mainly families and probably more cars speeding in the rare quieter times.

In general the road is not suitable for heavy traffic or wide enough in some areas for traffic to pass easily.
the road surface that was renewed within the past 5 years is already in need of repair and collapsing in some areas with the current traffic.
Increase traffic would only make this worse.

There is also the consideration to emergency services and how they would access all areas in and around Priests Lane. Something of a issue at present.

Since the relocation of the police station to the Town Hall. The police use priests lane as a cut through at high speed to Shenfield.
With high volumes of traffic this would make it impossible as it would for Fire & Ambulance services.

To myself and most of the residence in Priests Lane, there has been no thought process been put in to this application other than revenue to be made out of unused land.

Perhaps we should be considering in a period of Green thinking, that the Council provide a modern Park & Recreation ground for the families of the existing residence.