FEARS are growing that developers are eying up Thurrock’s green belt land after a plans for another 550 homes were unveiled.
Summix GET Developments Ltd has informed Thurrock Council it intends to submit plans for 550 homes land to Rear of Gobions Park, Princess Margaret Road in East Tilbury and land part of EDL Operations in Mucking Wharf Road, Stanford Le Hope.
The 87-acre metropolitan green belt site is in a flood zone and requires extensive environmental impact assessments ahead of a formal application being submitted.
However, the planning committee are likely to come under pressure to approve the plans in the face of the Government’s stated intention of new homes. The council also recently lost a lost an appeal to the planning inspectorate over a development in Linford, East Tilbury of up to 1,000 new homes, landing the authority with an £87,000 legal bill.
With less than one year’s supply of housing, this also weighed against the council at the appeal and would be likely to do so again.
Summix says 50 per cent of the new homes will be affordable and will range from one to four-bedrooms. A community space or café is also planned. A new access road on to Princess Margaret Road will be built.
Fraser Massey, Independent councillor for East Tilbury, said residents aren’t happy. He said: “Another speculative application on the greenbelt in East Tilbury, at a summer engagement event residents rightly voiced concerns regarding the dangerous road access to the site alongside the general increase in traffic on the road network which are not designed to handle the amount of houses already built or have planning to be built on the greenbelt.
“Sadly with many of the developments built on the greenbelt in the area the decision will been made not at a local level but by the secretary of state. With the current Government direction of travel I suspect more and more of the greenbelt in Thurrock will be developed, turning what is much needed high grade agricultural land into unwanted (at least locally) housing estates.”
In a request to Thurrock Council for a scoping opinion, the developer said: “It is evident that there is an urgent need to allocate a substantial number of new sites for housing development to address the lack of housing supply and slow delivery in Thurrock.
Just what we don’t need in thurrock another housing estate the road system can’t cope at the moment I can only think the people that make these decisions don’t actually live in the vicinity no chance of a hospital I suppose or even a medical centre no thought not just more housing and on a flood plain no.less who’s stupid idea was that I’m sure there are plenty of brownfield sites around thurrock that haven’t been built on yet but no let’s all build on the greenbelt I’ll give it 10 years essex will be just concrete
Leave our green belt alone there’s crops grown in those fields every year recently sweet corn, now been planted up with another crop looks lovely and green. Why don’t you look at land that’s not used instead of land that produces food for everyone
It’s just see a lovely fields and you have ruine it it’s not right it’s just greed ..????
Before they do anymore developement -IN ANY AREA- there should be detailed plans to improve the social and road structure, by that I mean- Facilities like Doctors-Clinics- tranport links-Decent roads and preferably some social area’s, where residents can go to; and that is before considering the inpact these extra properties will have on the sewerage system. The majoity of families now have more than one car- parking facilities- will these properties have their own garages built in, their own driveways,. or will it be ‘Parking anywhere you can find room, even if it means blocking the pavements.