Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)

Drastically reduced. Any additional traffic arising from new developments need to have only direct access onto the proposed new road linking the A120 and A133 to avoid further congestion through Crockleford Heath and Wivenhoe Road which links onto Bromley Road heading into Greenstead and Colchester Town. These roads are currently small country lanes, already unsafe for additional fast moving traffic, unable to cope with large lorries and public transport.

Living in the immediate area considered for development I strongly oppose this proposal as I believe the council has not fully considered the colossal impact this massive development will create. Colchester doctors, schools, hospitals and roads are full to capacity at present. Local surgeries in the area are closing their patient lists due to the increasing numbers of new residents in the current new developments being built. The roads in this area are small country lanes that are breaking up already with the amount of traffic, they talk about a rapid transit system which is basically a bus Lane!

Drastically reduced area of development, larger buffers to existing communities with no access on the already small country lanes.

The area proposed is already an area that supports an abundance of wildlife. It is impossible to say that by building thousands of houses, roads and associated buildings that bring considerable pollution, by simply building green areas and pathways you are adding to the sustainability of wildlife, sustainability is already here the way nature intended. This area already provides walks, horse riding and cycling facilities to many. Adding thousands of homes, hundreds of cars etc is unsustainable.

Drastically reduced and a realistic solution to the problem, building this massive development, basically a new town on the outskirts of a Roman Town, built on a hill with little infrastructure to adapt successfully is foolhardy at best

It is clear by seeing other large developments that the character of such buildings will not compliment or ‘fit into’ the character of the existing properties in this area. I think it’s incredibly naive to put into a plan idealistic notions that people will use cycling lanes or bus routes to travel to schools ( which by the way are completely full) and work. Colchester installed cycling lanes at huge expense I’m sure along the bottom of Harwich Road to Ipswich Road, a route I travel on in my car, and have yet to see more than a handful of people using in all the time it’s been built!

Drastically reduced and a more realistic approach is needed.

As previously mentioned this colossal new town needs further consideration. I appreciate the need for new housing, but realistically without concrete evidence to support the sustainability of this project it should be disbanded. There is no point in building thousands of homes with the ‘promise’ of schools, doctors etc. we all know that recruitment in these professions are limited at best. There is no strong evidence to state that these vacancies would be filled on such a humongous scale. We would then have a community with no facilities necessary for sustainable living.

A more realistic smaller approach

In light of the economic climate we are facing where people are struggling to pay mortgages, companies are struggling to provide employees with salaries to compensate the increased cost of living, how many firms are realistically able to set up new businesses providing people with competitive salaries to purchase homes on such an enormous scale. Where are the teachers, dentists, doctors, and the already over stretched community care going to miraculously appear from? I believe there is a very real prospect, a serious prospect that thousands of homes are going to be massively under supported in vital areas.

As previously mentioned, drastically reduced plans, and realistic expectations in the current climate and the impact on already local communities.

Having worked in the local food bank on the huge council estate near to this proposed plan, in my opinion social infrastructure is currently missing already! There is very little support for a huge community literally down the road! I believe it’s a very idealistic notion to think there would be enough finances to support this long term. Promises will be made I’m sure, but unless there will be a guaranteed budget for the foreseeable future that is ringfenced, my belief is once built, these houses will be left with very little community facilities.

Drastically reduced and more realistic reports on the negative impacts this will have, as we know there will be many of them.

What a wonderful idea that people will walk, cycle to work, school, etc. realistically this will not happen. I feel that this report glosses over the fact that most people have at least two cars, mainly because they need vehicles for work, shopping, school runs etc. to suggest that by merely installing these utopian visions of a green, traffic free, we will ignore the reality that the roads around colchester will be more congested by this development, people will not do their weekly shop by bus, or cycle, the rapid transit system will not cater to the needs of everyone.

Drastically reduced. More realistic expectations need to be factored in to this idealistic dream.

Once again the comment that residents will have much reduced need to travel. This is beyond ridiculous, most people travel everyday and not just on routes served by public transport ! I believe it’s time to accept that carbon emissions will increase massively, low emission boilers, cars and other household environs, will increase considerably. The convenience factor will far outstrip the idealistic notion of a carbon zero way of life. Nobody is going to travel on maybe two buses to their destination when your car is parked on the drive!

I have raised my concerns in previous statements that will address this matter.

I have raised concerns in my previous statements that will address this matter.