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Q1: Yes - However, we cannot understand why so much development has been mooted in the villages around the Borough. The resources in these semi rural areas like: school places, access to doctors surgery appointments and poor local public transport etc. do not seem to have been included in your draft. Will the Council be increasing spending on village infrastructure to take into account this massive influx of people into a small community?

Q2: Yes.

Q3: Yes - Regarding site 143 Limes Grove/ Peartree Lane/ Peartree Close. There has been a draft application (?) entitled "Objection to Policy S2" circulated to local residents, some of this document is misleading, this plot is painted as a brownfield site with "run down, unused piggeries" - there have been sheep and goats in these buildings/ fields for numerous years.

This is currently Green Belt land. The building of the proposed 50 new houses would be totally out of scale with all other developments in Doddinghurst and would dramatically change the environment for the current residents in this area of the village.

Lime Grove is at present a small, no-through road which is only 4.8m wide, serving 100 homes. There is extensive on-street parking of residents vehicles which has increased markedly in the 20 years we have lived here. On road parking is heavy during "out of office" hours and especially weekends. The road is very congested with parked cars and access down the road for any delivery vans/lorries or emergency vehicles is very restricted. The waste collection lorry on Wednesday has to regularly drive up the kerbs onto the pavement to pass parked cars (damaging the verges and kerbs in the process), any additional traffic from the proposed development would only exacerbate this problem. The other access to the proposed site, Peartree Lane is little different.

Also site access for heavy vehicles during any construction phase would be dangerous to the residents of Lime Grove and Peartree Lane and access would be virtually impossible.

Q4: Dunton Garden Suburb.

Q5: Yes.

Q6: Brownfield sites should always be considered in advance of breaking ground on any Greenfield site. There are numerous brownfield sites, especially old trading estates, around our borough that could be recycled into housing areas.

Q7: Yes - And also close to the rail and bus network, shouldn't the council be encouraging public transport use rather than more cars on the already congested highway network?

Q8: Yes - However "superstores" should be sited away from the town centres to preserve the smaller traders.

Q9: Yes.

Q10:
Scenic Beauty/ Attractiveness: 5
Outdoor Recreation/ Leisure Use: 4
Wildlife Interest: 4
Historic Interest: 3
Tranquility: 5
Other - Community Life: 5

Q11:
Houses: 3
Commercial/ Industrial Buildings: 1
Nature Reserves/ Wildlife: 2
Farmland: 3
Woodland: 3
Degraded/ Derelict/ Waste land: 1
Infrastructure: 2
Leisure/ Recreation Facilities: 2

Q12: No.

Q13: Brentwood Town centre redevelopment - Hunters Way, cinema/entertainment complex, additional car parking.