Comment

Representation ID: 16278

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

DHGV would overwhelm the adjacent village of Dunton Wayletts, if Basildon's Policy H10 would extend to the boundary with Basildon Council and would lie only about 200m away from the westernmost properties in Dunton Wayletts. A development on the scale proposed would dominate this rural area and overwhelm the adjacent village.
The two developments would amalgamate to form a large scale development that would place a disproportionate number of homes in an appropriate rural area. The ancient Dunton Wayletts, in the middle of the development, would be obliterated as a distinct rural settlement.

Object

Representation ID: 16281

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

Dunton is an unsuitable location for large scale development because the development :
- would reduce the narrowest and most critical section of the Metropolitan Green Belt
- promote the coalescence of Southend with London
- would constitute ribbon development
- would replace a strong Green Belt boundary with a weak one
- the area lacks landscape capacity for large scale development
- the area does not exhibit any characteristics that indicate suitability for Green Belt boundary adjustment.
- development would be adjacent to a Major Accident Hazard Pipeline
- be in an area of exceptionally poor air quality.

Object

Representation ID: 16285

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

Dunton is an unsuitable location for large scale development because the development would:
- harm the character and setting of the historic village of Dunton Wayletts
- ruin the setting of All Saint's Church, East Horndon
- severely harm the setting of several other listed buildings
- local infrastructure could not absorb the increase in population and vehicle movements
- reduce public access to open space
- reduce oppurtunities for open air pursuits
- bisect and important wildlife connectivity corridor
- intrude into Mardyke Valley, a valued landscape
- frustrate the objectives of Thames Chase Community Forest
- unaceptably close to an SSSI
- threaten ancient woodlands
- lie in a high risk flood zone
- the land is in good productive agriculture use
- the Dunton area is required to be left undeveloped for aviation purposes.

Object

Representation ID: 16286

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

Breaking the circle of open land around London would be unlawful
DHGV adjoining Policy H10 proposed by Basildon Council would effectively bridge the gap between Basildon and West Horndon. BEP would effectively bridge the gap between West Horndon and the M25. The circle of open land would be broken.

Object

Representation ID: 16287

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

The Council has failed to carry out landscape assessment and so its decision to remove the Dunton area from the Green Belt has no validity.

Object

Representation ID: 16288

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

- The Authory has miscontrued government policy concerning the balance between meeting housing need and preserving critical portions of Green Belt.
- The Authory's claim that DHGV will restrict urban sprawl and prevent settlement coalescence are absurd.
- Despite most westerly houses in Dunton Wayletts lie only 200m beyond the borough boundary the Authory has failed to take into account any of the impact of its proposals on the village.

Object

Representation ID: 16289

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

Object the claim that the A127 corridor provides growth opportunities that are not possible in the A12 corridor.

Object

Representation ID: 16314

Received: 18/05/2016

Respondent: Dunton Community Association

Agent: Dunton Community Association

The Plan allocates 35% of the Authority's OAN to the Dunton area. Such a proposal is clumsy in the extreme and does not represent proper and thoughtful planning. Such a proposal is clumsy in the extreme and does not represent proper and thoughtful planning.

The Plan is unbalanced in that it fails to distribute the loss of Green Belt land evenly throughout the borough. The Authority allocates 63% of its Green Belt release at Dunton in the absence of Green Belt assessment.

The Authority has cynically offloaded its housing and other needs to an edge of the Borough where a neighouring borough will shoulder the infrastructure burden. Basildon Council, which the Authority sees fit to exploit, already faces insurmountable infrastructure problems. The landscape assessment of the area south of the A127 is misguided.