Support is offered for including a strategic objective (SO2) which seeks to promote design to encourage healthy active lifestyles. This would accord with Government policy in paragraph 91 of the NPPF and Sport England's 'Towards an Active Nation' strategy.

My modification would be that sites R25 and R26 should be removed from the LDP and that Planners should refer to the BVHA 'neighbourhood plan'. This clearly sets out our local housing needs, and would avoid further development in the Blackmore area which is an already sustainable community. Also remove the Site GT 16 - a II 8 previously unapproved pitches. Leave Blackmore IN Green Belt and restore the classification of "Rural Village in a sparse setting (which it is for roads, Buses, etc. etc. it really is) I am very unhappy that you have chosen to issue such a difficult form to complete with wholly unnecessary/inappropriate personal elements in Section A. It has taken me an unacceptable amount of time to understand and complete. I am very tempted to believe this is a deliberate attempt to stifle meaningful comment. A lot of people who hold views exactly like mine HAVE been put off from objecting because of this.

I do not believe the plan is sound, positively prepared, is not effective and cannot, therefore, cannot be consistent with National Planning Policy for the following reasons: 1. There been grossly insufficient consultation with other neighbouring authorities. For example Epping Forest District Council (EF) which is building about 30 new houses just 1 mile north of Blackmore at the top of Fingrith Hall lane which will have a major impact on the local facilities, the utilities and the traffic in Blackmore. Also four pairs of semi's even closer to Blackmore built in the last few years. These need to be assessed with the 70 new properties being proposed for Blackmore. 2. The access to/from Red Rose Lane is completely unsuitable for the addition of over70 properties. This is a single track road, and is already dangerous for walkers and horse riders. Adding the extra volume of traffic on this road is completely unsuitable. 3. The village has already been subject to serious flooding in recent years, most recently being 3 years ago, when several houses on the Green were flooded. Additionally several of the surrounding roads (including Red Rose Lane) were impassable. Adding over 70 properties with their associated run-off will cause further flooding problems. (See attached photo from June 2016 of the junction of The Green and Chelmsford/lngatestone Road) 4. The sewerage, electricity and other utilities were not designed to cope with an additional 70 properties (an increase of around 30%) without counting the 30 extra properties in Fingrith Hall road. No appropriate mitigation is highlighted in the plan. 5. There has been no clear housing strategy for the North of the Borough. Whilst there are many options that could be considered for building houses in the North of the Borough, it is as if Blackmore has been chosen with virtually no other options being considered and others - such as Honey Pot Lane and Red Rose Farm - completely ignored orwithdrawn. 6. There has been no 'Housing Needs' survey carried out which would demonstrate why Blackmore has been included in the LOP, and why other areas have not. The survey carried out by local reps has been entirely ignored. 7. The Borough Council has not shown that the required additional houses for the Borough could not be delivered by increasing the housing density on the other allocated sites in the plan or continuing to include Honey Pot Lane (now removed from the latest draft). 8. There are Brownfield sites available nearby (Red Rose Farm as one example) but there is no evidence these have been considered in preference to using greenfield, Green Belt land. 9. Putting a substantial residential development in the north of the village on Green Belt land off of Red Rose Lane which increases the housing in a historic village by over 30% is fundamentally wrong. The infrastructure (bus services, roads, village facilities, doctors, school) simply cannot cope with such a large increase of people. 10. Adding 200-300 more cars (over70 houses in Blackmore and 30 in Fingrith Hall lane) in the village of Blackmore (which already suffers from significant parking problems) will create a real danger to pedestrians in the village. The lives of small children and old people will be put in real danger with such a large increase in traffic volumes. 11. Other more suitable locations (eg areas around Doddinghurst, urban extensions to Brentwood, increasing the size of the Dunton Hills proposal) which all have better transport links would have been a far better proposal than the development in Blackmore which is not a sustainable development proposal. 12. The pieces of land proposed in Blackmore are important wildlife and natural habitats for rare species such as newts and other creatures. 13. The Local Development Plan proposal includes a plan to regularise an unauthorized traveler site on the Chelmsford Road (at Oak Tree Farm-plots 1,2,3). This will add to further overcrowding in the village and of its services. 14.1 feel very strongly that Blackmore is already extended to the limit of its capability if it is to retain the rural feel, historic nature and