Object
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 4844
Received: 17/02/2015
Respondent: Mrs Helen Gabell
Clear bias again on the part of the writer has told the reader that there is a 'greater capacity for growth along the A127 corridor', even though this is clearly not the case, when the A127 corridor hasn't got the advantage of the Crossrail and multiple roads, including a much better maintained A12, brownfield sites, and nearby secondary schools.
As stated previously, this is a biased use of language by the writer, presenting opinion as fact - Given the greater capacity for growth along the A127 Corridor. The council should never have allowed this, and it is quite clear from all of the language used in this document, and the failure of the council to provide information as promised to all residents, that they have already made a decision to build along the A127 corridor.
This protects what one councillor described as the 'leafy green' part of Brentwood, to the detriment of large areas of greenbelt, villages that were in the Doomesday Book, etc, even when areas to the north of the borough are better served by road and rail, with brownfield sites that can be built on.
Legal action should be taken by the residents who will suffer as a result of this clear bias, against those members of the council that agreed this wording, and only sent the information to the residents of the A12 corridor, not the residents of Herongate and Ingrave (and even then not Hutton residents)