Object

Strategic Growth Options

Representation ID: 4549

Received: 16/02/2015

Respondent: Cllr Jon Cloke

Representation Summary:

Infrastructure issues have barely been considered, if at all. Development is proposed to be allowed to go ahead piecemeal without addressing these issues.

Full text:

The Main Infrastructure issues in Ingatestone, Fryerning & Mountnessing have not been considered.
These are Sewerage & Treatment; Medical Facilities (Provision of at least an additional Surgery) and Infant/Junior Schooling.
These are just the main issues and much deeper research needs to be carried out before any development is given the go-ahead.
Electricity distribution is already overloaded and unreliable, and was so 25 years ago. No upgrading or additions to the system have been made since.
The piecemeal development in the area does not mean that adequate provisions for infrastructure are made via S106 or CIL cannot be enforced, this needs to be done before not after the development.
To give two examples:
The Main foul drain that runs down Ingatestone high st. has flooded and given problems for years because it is only a 4" drain, and know to be crushed at one point. Nothing gets done about this but there are plenty of new residences being added to the load.
Even during the building of the Trueloves development the sewer leading out of the site overflowed down the main, Roman Road, no additional drainage outside the site has been provided, what happens when the houses on the main site start to be sold?