Last week’s Standard talks about the fight against county lines and the war on drugs in Essex.

However also last week a planning application was publicised in Bradwell-on-Sea to provide shelter for young people at risk of involvement in drug trafficking.

This application is for 12 dwellings on the edge of the village to provide housing for vulnerable young people.

This is a mistake in at least three ways. Firstly, it ruins the historic hamlet of Mill End and the area around the old Queen’s Head pub (now St Peter’s Court) and the proposed design is not at all in keeping with the listed buildings in the area. Secondly it is not in keeping with the Local Plan and instead is potentially a profit-generating scheme for developer and landowner disguised as something for the social good.

Finally, this potentially provides an ‘in’ for some of the problems that have hitherto not reached this corner of the Dengie Peninsula.

G Eyre

Bradwell-on-Sea