WELL that was quick wasn’t it?

From a few horses to be running around on the field next to Sudbury road to a development of 230 houses.

We all suspected that would be the case eventually, but not this quickly.

Gladman’s land grab is something to marvel at.

We are told that if new houses are not being built a primary school will have to close – scaremongering of course, parents cannot get their children in their preferred school now!

Gladman has opened a ‘public consultation’ online only. Hardly public is it now?

When you write in you are assured that your views count, but they will not respond to your questions or comments.

It also assures us that planning permission will be sought at each stage.

Currently, 395 homes are being built and if this gets the nod that will bring it up to 625 houses.

That means potentially 1,200 more cars in our car parks that are non-existent, 1,200 more kids looking for school places and 2,500 more people in our surgery (where you have to queue up to get an appointment now for half an hour, unless you are one of the elite that are there every day).

How are our 17 hairdressers going to cope?

We’ll need at least another four!

Henk Kuhlman

Tylneys Road

Halstead

More facilities to go with new homes

I FULLY understand the need for more housing, particularly “affordable”

housing.

However, the planned homes near Oak Road, Colchester Road and off the Sudbury Road will all add to the burden of the overstretched infrastructure of the town.

In my eyes a simple solution is for planning to insist that additional doctors’ surgeries and schools, both primary and a secondary are built by the builders or planning permission is simply withheld.

This is for our council to fight Braintree until all parties agree to provide more amenities, or find another area to build in.

As I said earlier I fully support additional “affordable” housing in the district.

But this cannot come at the price of sinking our already stretched services.

Roger Warren

Halstead