Here are the results of the survey for people who live in the Rawreth Lane area. Thanks again to everyone who helped. The first question was about how many of people’s shopping trips from home by car were to ASDA in Priory Chase. We had 87 responses:
If you treat “almost all” as being 100%, and “almost none” as being zero , we can calculate a figure of about 58% of these trips being to ASDA. Slightly lower than Countryside’s prediction of 63% , but not vastly different.
The second question was about where people who mostly shop at ASDA have as their second choice place:
The third question was where people go shopping who don’t have ASDA as their first choice:
Sainsbury is the clear ‘winner’ here, and few people do food shopping in Rayleigh Town Centre, which is a bit different to Countryside’s estimates:
So the average of the two surveys is 60% using ASDA – who will be turning right ( accross traffic flow ) to head East , join the Q at the Priory Chase lights to get to
ASDA ( and take & fetch children to St Nicholas School ) – I think that alone will be much more than the 7-8 movements mooted by Countryside.
And 60% of 500 is 300 shopping trips / week , giving the benefit of the doubt that they all shop on different days ( unlikely) that is an average of 40+ trips per day ( both ways means 80 movements per day ) – not counting 4 movements per day ( per child) to & from the school for 5 days of the week plus fish shop and leisure centre visits to and from………..I rest my case your honour!!!!.
OH , and I suspect a large % of the new residents will have to go to work to pay their mortgages too – so that is potentially ( how many ? ) rush hour to/ from movements
for each household (500 ). Not to mention the 200+ planned for the redevelopment of
Rawreth Lane Ind Estate in due course – and all this without counting 500 increase in Hullbridge traffic…………
I hope our councillors are pulling all these statistics together ready to table at the planning approval meeting – when is that by the way? , we all need to attend.
As some Councillors are constantly in denial about the number of homes (it will be more than the 1379 due to the removal of the ‘cap’ on density agreed with the Government Inspector in his list of ‘modifications’, Countryside already greedily want 500 on just three quarters of the area SER1 originally stated to hold 550 in total)I suggest we all club together and buy a supersize abacus to take to the Council meeting to help them out. Unless some clever bod can make one so they can have a visual exhibit of the actual number of homes planned for off our two roads.
Been away for a few days , just noticed more road survey wires set up in both Rawreth Lane and Hullbridge Rd – is someone listening at last, beware damn lies and statistics coming your way…..
Also wires appearing in old Chelmsford Road both exits from Beeches Road/Watery Lane ,and it’s not even school holidays ,but off course Beeches Road is closed during the day!!
Oops just been told road is now en !