Castle Point Plan - Issues & Options Consultation

Quality of life for existing residents - and new - is deteriorating faster in CP. The area is so overdeveloped.
This area is geographically compromised - look on any map!
It has confined boundaries - and very little true expansion space.
It provides the only route ways for those living to the east to travel in and out of the area.
Consequently it is heavily polluted and a very bad bottle neck at least twice a day. Any incident snarls the areas roads within minutes.
People spend hours and hours trying to fight their way home in CP and beyond. It is horrific.
Building has been allowed willy nilly for years and the area is a known soft touch for all developers big and small.
Land grabbing has been and still is rife in the area.
Shopping in CP is extremely limited. It's ok for groceries but cant be depended on for a whole host of things and hence driving is necessary for the majority of people. CP is hilly in Benfleet and roads are extremely busy so walking or cycling is not appropriate for most.
Despite a growing population and crime rate the Police station was bulldozed, flats built with too little parking. This is now typical in CP and is causing great frustration and anger amongst long suffering residents who are now fighting to park outside their own properties. This has to stop.
Providing jobs - where? on more green belt land? How many jobs will go tio local people - you cant force them to be employed.
There's little space to provide new amenities - we had halls to use but they seem to disappear in the blink of an eye - to be used as car parks or for flats! Its just so stupid to take amenities away to build more houses then try to put amenities back!
Our green amenity space is essential as green lung, for food growing, for exercise and the general well being in multiple ways for residents and wild animals. It is used by thousands of people from outside of the area. You should do a survey on this!
Building on any more of it is going to gridlock the area for hours daily and make the area a very unpopular place to live.

Area is difficult to access at commuting times. If the traffic has to flow through Benfleet the whole area grinds to a halt.

The area is very definitely full. The Stanford le hope area has its own problems with traffic and certainly don't want Canvey traffic too.
The new port has caused huge issues and massive pollution for the whole area.

Please look at Buncefield - why is their an Oikos plant on Canvey so near to residential areas when you are all aware of the huge risks it poses??

Not IF but WHEN Canvey with floods or Oikos has issues again how will an increased population cope? How would energency services cope? They just won't as Canvey is an island and will always be an island. Maybe no more building is the answer. It may say e lives.

Look on any map - the area is a natural bottle neck.
It includes flood planes.
It has land slip.
It is a through route for the Boroughs surrounding it.
It has no expansion room to improve access to it, from it nor through it.
It cant cope with any more traffic or pollution.
Its full.

Stop removing essential facilities - police station, community halls etc. Sop building flats - most of which are buy to lets and if building space is available let's have some small bungalows for the elderly that are well designed and have green space around them.
We need more shops - shopping is poor in Benfleet because we all go elsewhere were sit more varied and you can find good coffee shops and parking. Truing to park in Benfleet local centre is dire and too much like hard work. Its unattractive. Tress are removed, Flats over hang pavements - what on earth is the planning Department doing? Why cant they insist that trees are reinstalled, recognising how they help mitigate pollution.

Non. Its rammed.

Non That area is horrendously busy and congested. Its air pollution os massive. You can taste it when you walk near. It's used by thousands a day. More development there is inexcusable.

That area should be very heavily protected and maintained.
It is of huge historical importance.
The businesses there should be made to recognise this and maintain their properties accordingly. The Spa shop area is a disgrace and their sneaky removal of trees yet again has been allowed. No more fast food joints.

Trees - to enhance the area and mitigate pollution.
No more fast food joints. Their rubbish is horrendous.

Planting of trees.

If it wasn't a working area that provides employment and facilities for residents the it would be brown field.

Absolutely non apart from planting trees along the shopping areas in Hadleigh and ensuring Lidl do the same. This would help protect shoppers and mitigate some car pollution.

Plant trees not silly tiny whips that are never going to sustainable.
Keep the car parking area at the top and do not build on it. The fields are well used every single day.
Anglian water must ensure the stink is removed from the area and that no sewage is flowing into the creek.

Build on green belt must be avoided.The green belt is a green lung which is so crucial in an area where air pollution is extremely high and dangerous. The vast increase in breathing issues seen in this area is extremely worrying and must be seen as a major reason for no more development here.
The overcrowding of resources at present is noticeable in all areas of Benfleet.
Despite no large building of new homes there a huge increase in new people into the area.
Many appear to be shipped here by London Boroughs - if all site allocations were built on it seems likely they would be housed and not locals.wouldn't.
The area is becoming a sprawl of adhoc development build to the detriment of existing residents who are already paying a very high price for it all.

Hadleigh bears the brunt of horrendous traffic belching out muck all day long. Its trees were removed some years ago from the main thorough fare and need reinstating. It has a beautiful church and a pleasant few shops. It needs all the green space it has and the old Crown site shouldn't house people - its simply inappropriate as a residential area because of high pollution rates and poor accessibility. It should be used as an amenity space for local people and returned to tham in that form.

Its avery important flood plain and habitat for wildlife and must be preserved as such.

Non. It's beautiful and historic. Trees must be kept or reinstated.

Trees to mitigate pollution no more building go flats overhanging the road. They're almost all buy to let and inappropriate for families. More parks are needed throughout the area. What there are are overused at times and always in demand

Non. What is being built are a disgrace. Parking is totally inadequate and again its not going to locals buying them to live in - they'll be like the others - mostly buy to let. They help no one but investors.
Young families wicked have undoubtedly been interested in Hall crescent houses as family homes - they're not going to purchase tiny flats with inadequate parking.

Non. Its inappropriate for residential and best used as it is to provide jobs..

The school is going to need to expand soon as there are lots of incoming families from London and elsewhere. Scrub Lane is now a bottle neck because a developer was allowed to build properties that has far from the required number of parking spacers - yet again. If there's ever a problem on the A13 Srub Lane is impassable. Housing development on the land adjacent to the school will create huge issues for the area.

More tress could help - and Lidl should have had to provide them to mitigate the extra pollution from their car park. Trees would help with air pollution and the safety of shoppers.

They're stocking. They will just snarl up the area even more and the local essential facilities just cant cope now and will fail totally wth more housing.

The walking routes and wooded areas in this area are very heavilyy used - both by local residents and those from outside the area. the green areas provide links with others and enable us to walk, ride or cycle across the area both for leisure and to enable us to get to work and school etc.
They aren't huge swathes of land but are vital to the area as alternatives to very, very busy roads.
Non of these thorough fares should be built on or blocked by development.

This area is already developed and what isn't provides a vital green lung to those of us who unfortunately have to live between the A130, A13 and A127 - which belch out pollution in huge quantities 24/7.
The health of the residents in the area should be paramount.

Non. The area lies between the A130, A13 and A127 - these roads are used as corridors through the area and their pollutants are massive.
Residents health must come before development.
Further development is just increasing the number of humans suffering from harm from all of this pollution. Thats is just a nonsense.

More health related places such as doctors and clinics for existing residents.
The area cannot support more development. There's just not the room for improvemtnt of any type.

Any more development means more cars and more people. They just don't fit!

All are a nonsense in such a hugely over populated area.

By increasing housing you are risking the health and quality of life of existing residents. The area is already a very stressful place to live.
You cant get a school place or doctor/dentist appointment.
You cant drive in or out of the area easily - it grid locks at the slightest thing.
Houses are rammed into every nook and cranny.
The green space we have is very heavily utilised - by loads of people who come from outside of the area too.
The air pollution here is horrific and there's a vast number of new patients with chest related issues due to this.
The Borough is already one of the most densely populated areas in the uk - but its also the most shoehorned area with very limited access in and out and is a corridor for the Boroughs beyond access.
Building more houses is a disaster in the making.
We need a council and planners who realise this and will firmly refute the ridiculous and scurrilous claims by developers and those who do not reside in the area.

42 is Rubbish
These options are closed questions - they are presumptive of development on a large scale. How disappointing .

Fight to stop further develpment. Residents cant live with more.

More over population in an area thats not coping anyhow.

Non.

Put new housing elsewhere. No one should be expected to live in an area such as this with the possibility of an even bigger population with no prospect whatsoever ever of improved access or better infrastructure.
The tea is a horrendous geographical bottle neck.

None.

Too many shoehorned in already.

Keep bungalows for the elderly. Stop them from being made into big houses on tiny sites.

Not enough sheltered for the elderly. Use Abbeyfields house for them

They have enough.

Keep it. It provides local employment and retail.

Keep it as its local employment and retail.

Keep it - local employment and retail we need.

Landscape it. Make developers landscape with mature trees and solar panels on all roof lines.

They are important to local employment and residents.

Drs and nurseries etc first .

We don't live in that set of area.

The net work of centres has diminished enormously. This is to the detriment of residents and needs to be addressed.

Crucial but it seems hosing developers rule and can build housing on any retail outlets they can grab.
We all have to drive to food stores and retail centres as the area is so poorly served.
Where there are retailers parking is often difficult.
There are very few good retail outlets as its so hard for them to survive due to lack of constant support as people have to travel to larger retail areas such as leigh on sea.
The areas we have are unattractive and aesthetically lacking.
The tres that used to line the A13 in Haleigh were torn out - replacing them would help with the overall appearance and pollution. Out planners are woefully short sighted!!!!

See above

Plentiful and cheap. The parking where the old hall was near Richmond park must remain.

Souless and dominated by big firms. They do not enhance anyones shopping experience. Leigh on sea is very sought after because of its independent shops and character.

We have too many. They make an awful mess.

Just where? This isn't an urban area - its a suburban sprawl.

Green space, landscaping, preventing pollution by tree planting.
Insisting all development is aesthetically pleasing and properly landscaped with mature trees etc and footpaths.
Lidl in Hadleigh is a very successful business. Yet it has not been required to give anything to the community.
There is a hideous metal fence around the building with couple of low growing shrubs near it. Why wasn't there a proper landscaping requirement?
Not only would mature trees be aesthetically pleasing and a huge improvement but they'd also mitigate some of the massive extra pollution created by that business.
Why do our planners not insist on this?

The over development of the an area which has massive geographical constraints in terms of access already.
The huge risk to residents from pollution because of the major roads criss crossing it and used by Boroughs beyond CP as their only rhouteways in and out of the Borough.
This is all unique to CP and hence this area is unlike anywhere else in the Country.

That is unthinkable.

Parking, light, loss of value to existing residents, over crowding, density of population.

As above. It is very very contentious and extremely stressful for existing residents affect by this stuff.

No space for such developments.

All heritage assets should be protected.

No room for them. residents cant live normally here at present. The area is rammed with people and cars. The crime rate is massive. The area becoming more undesirable daily.
Its just a corridor full of traffic and pollution..

Inappropriate here.

It should be built elsewhere where the access to the area is acceptable and not in an area like CP where access is is constant issue as is pollution and over crowding.
Who on earth would want to live in such an unhealthy area?

No more house building would equate to less pollution.
The fact the area is a main corridor to this living to the east of CP is the major pollution issue.

Our Green Belt areas are used very extensively - from those within and from outside the area. Our family walk, cycle and ride across it and you are never alone.
People using the country park hate the expensive parking and park in the roads adjacent to it at all times - both in Hadleigh and in Benfleet.
the Olympic cycle track is very poor now and competitions no longer held.

Flood plains are there for a reason and nothing should be built near them or drain towards them as the extra water creates huge issues.
Building in areas such as Glyders is going to cause massive flooding problem to existing properties. Common sense is never at the forefront when plans are put forward by developers. There was once a late lake at the bottom of Essex Way. The houses alongside the road and even in the high points of St Marys road flood badly as there is masses of run off along with springs that flood the area but no where for the water to go.
Its impossible to add houses and expect there to be no issues from the extra water running off.

Leave all flood plains alone especially in Boyce, Richmond park, Canvey and the Jotmans area.

They are crucial to drainage, to provide a green lung in a very polluted area; to give open space to the residents to travel to work and school etc; to provide a habitat for our wide wildlife population; to provide leisure facilities and enhance lifestyles in a very stressful, overdeveloped and densely populated area.
CP needs every ounce of green space and that fact should never ever be compromised.

New development is totally unable to protect or enhance Castle Ponds landscape.
Uprooting trees and removing green land or space is abhorrent and cant possibly enhance the environment.
This question is truly ridiculous and a skewed question.
It is a closed question like so many others in this document.
No closed questions are acceptable.

Another closed question.

Do not allow ant more development.

Another closed question. Why is this allowed?

We need agricultural land.
During war time the country was unable to feed itself. It certainly cant now.
This is an island and very vulnerable if there's no self sufficiency in food.
Keeping agricultural land is enormously important!!!

Yes but anywhere they could be have been snapped up by developers.
Even our police station was sold off.
Disgraceful.

Keep all go the existing clinics and use them.

Keep our green space a scythes is what it gives us. Its crucial.

Give priority to local pupils and stop shipping in students from London. They sadly cant integrate and have no local ties to the community.

The influx of strangers from London Boroughs is a concern to locals. Where foo they live and how have they got here? If local people know this and understand then its more comfortable for everyone.

They are a public asset and should be protected. They are a community facility and as such are extemely valuable. TRhey provide a central meeting place and eateries.

Another closed question!!!!

Another leading and closed question. Why?

There's no space and this is another closed question.

What is active travel?
How can we possibly have additional road capacity. Really silly assumptions in closed question format.

Helicopters

Leave the green belt as public footpaths and bridleways really alive road congestion.

Poor grammar. What exactly does this question mean?