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I agree with (C) A127 Corridor, have reservations on (B) A12 Corridor, because of the limited main arterial routes and junctions to enter and exit Brentwood Town centre and the negative impact on surrounding road networks and countryside. I disagree and object to the broad area of (A) North of the Borough as the Villages in this are and the surrounding countryside are what give the area it's character, reputation, value and quality of enivronment. If you extend villages, they become towns and people choose to live in villages because they don't want to live in a town! The villages of Navestock, Kelvedon Hatch, Doddinghurst, Stondon Massey, Hook End, Blackmore and Wyatts Green are distinct in charceter and separated by countryside, if you start to 'fill in' the countryside between these villages you lose the distinction, uniqueness and character and you start to lose the villages and potentially the 'local' people that live there. The local infrastructure of the villages cannot sustain large growth, there are not enough school,places, there are not enough medical facilities, the village centres retail areas are already overcrowded at peak times and there is not enough public transport, the surrounding rounds are not suitable for large buses now, so an increase would mean expensive adjustments to the road and the roads are poorly maintained now, so an increase in vehicles would only make this worse unless there was a huge investment.There would also be a massive impact on all the local wildlife.