BAG view on the Impact on Billericay of the Local Plan
Several developers have told us they will restrict their building to circa 50 homes per annum on ’their’ site – to keep prices high. There are many sites in the plan. Our already overloaded, broken roads will carry construction traffic for many years. Congestion is guaranteed.
The Local Plan does not provide for additional employment in Billericay: virtually all new working residents from the c2,800 new homes will be commuters using local roads and trains: neither will cope.
With one-bedroom flats now being marketed at over £300k and family homes costing a lot more, few of our young families will be able to stay in the town. Downsizing opportunities for older residents are impossible as suitable properties are gobbled up by rapacious developers and replaced by Executive Homes.
Piecemeal development around our town will not facilitate provision of significant satellite shopping and public service facilities. Our High Street will be overloaded; some residents will have to go elsewhere.
Existing Green spaces will be put under strain: Green Belt, once developed, will be lost for ever.
The so called ‘Relief Road’ will be nothing of the sort. Already described by one of the leading Billericay Councillors as a ‘road from nowhere to nowhere’ its sole purpose will be to provide access to the additional, excessive housing. What through traffic it does attract will only add to the problems on Mountnessing Road and Perry Street.
Billericay provides safe seats for Conservative politicians, local and national. Concessions don’t need to be provided here whilst they do in other wards. Could this be why our elected Councillors seem so unconcerned about the plight of our town and why some have even contrived to make it worse?
The Local Plan does not provide for additional employment in Billericay: virtually all new working residents from the c2,800 new homes will be commuters using local roads and trains: neither will cope.
With one-bedroom flats now being marketed at over £300k and family homes costing a lot more, few of our young families will be able to stay in the town. Downsizing opportunities for older residents are impossible as suitable properties are gobbled up by rapacious developers and replaced by Executive Homes.
Piecemeal development around our town will not facilitate provision of significant satellite shopping and public service facilities. Our High Street will be overloaded; some residents will have to go elsewhere.
Existing Green spaces will be put under strain: Green Belt, once developed, will be lost for ever.
The so called ‘Relief Road’ will be nothing of the sort. Already described by one of the leading Billericay Councillors as a ‘road from nowhere to nowhere’ its sole purpose will be to provide access to the additional, excessive housing. What through traffic it does attract will only add to the problems on Mountnessing Road and Perry Street.
Billericay provides safe seats for Conservative politicians, local and national. Concessions don’t need to be provided here whilst they do in other wards. Could this be why our elected Councillors seem so unconcerned about the plight of our town and why some have even contrived to make it worse?