Two Extra Sites For Housing In Rayleigh?

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Back in 2010 we said that the District Council shouldn’t have continued so far in to the future with their Core Strategy:

Of course , once land is taken out of the Green Belt, it?s very hard to protect it again. Wouldn?t it better to let future councillors ? in 2025 ? make decisions on what housing is needed then rather than have councillors and council officers try to guess things now 15 or 20 years in advance?

Why is our council so keen to press ahead with all this?

So with the council having already allocated some unsuitable sites for development, we have two new planning applications to look forward to. One is at the old prison site at Bullwood Hall, mostly in Rayleigh but partly in Hockley. Harrow Estates are holding a public consultation session tomorrow at the Parish Hall (Upper Room) 58 Southend Road Hockley from 2 pm to 8 pm. There should be more info available after the event at Harrow Estates Website.

The other is for 100 new homes around the Timber Grove site off London Road Rayleigh.
This application shouldn’t be a surprise to coucnillors – there was an application in 2012 that was refused, but only on the chairman’s casting vote.

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  • Have you given up being the Leader of the Opposition now Chris, it looks like you have to everyone. John Mason is doing a fine job – better than you ever did

  • Bullwood Hall – I remember that Cllr Hudson was quoted in the Echo , ” no building until the Hockley Rd issues are solved ” , sounds a familiar tune don’t you think ?.
    Can you imagine the impact of Construction Traffic on that road – has to be rejected out of hand.

  • Found it on your previous item – Bullwood Hall Prison Mystery , comment No 3 ( Jihn Mason quotes Cllr Hudson – another pledge !!!!! )……..don’t hold your breath.

  • Tony, Leader of The Opposition wasn’t a title I used very often, as it sounded a pretty grandiose title when our group was so small.
    But John Mason officially became Leader of the Opposition when he became leader of the largest opposition group.

    and – the truth hurts – but I think you are right. John seems to be doing a better job as Opposition Leader than I did, and I wish him well.

    Though I aim to keep working for residents, and campaigning in general, for a long time yet.

  • I have no idea how much effort Tony Savers puts into the community but I do know that Chris Black works his socks off for his Ward residents – and I am glad he is carrying on.

  • Jim@5 . So am I Chris has been a lone voice for a long time and although I have never been a Libdem I recognise his commitment to his Ward. He is a decent sort I was hoping he would become Independent along with Ron and Bruce because their Westminster politicians let them down. They have had so many scandals on every level what with Cyril Smith, Jeremy Thorpe, the casting couch process for Libdem woman, accepting millions from a fraudster and finally Chris Huhne’s perjury and jailing. To be honest I think decent Libdem’s have a reason to despair.

  • Thanks for your comments.

    Linda – just spent 30 minutes writing a comment in reply to you, but clicked the wrong button and lost it! Will heve to try again tonight….

  • Who are you Tony and what have you done to help make Rawreth and Rayleigh a better place to live in ?Chris works fearlessly and has had to put with a lot nonsense from the ruling Junta .

  • To be fair Linda I think you can pick scandals out of every political party. Profumo, Cecil Parkinson, Harvey Proctor, Jeffrey Archer, Lord Taylor, Lord Hanningfield. For labour, Peter Mandelsson and an interest free loan, Ron Davis, various cash for access scandals etc. etc. It is unfortunately true that any group of people, be they employees, directors, or the local golf club, will have among them the venal who are just in it for what they can get out of it. I think it’s just that when it is politicians the publicity value is higher and it lasts for longer. I have no great loving for any political party. In the main at national level they are in it for what they get (directorships, consultancies, speaking engagements etc.) rather than for true public service. At local level you still get people who truly want to help their community, pity they don’t seem to filter through to the top echelon

  • Thanks for your comments, Jim, Angelina , Linda, Alistir , Christine and Oz

    In response to Linda in particular – the whole business involving Smith makes me want to vomit, and its conceivable that further revelations about that could affect what I think about the party. But I don’t despair , nor to I feel any strong desire to go independent.

    If I became an independent I might gain some extra votes, but that’s not a very admirable reason in itself to change parties.

    The party has always treated me fairly. Over 30+ years in the party nobody has tried to get me to vote against my conscience.

    In terms of the national party, I think going into coalition with the Tories had led to a stable government, which has helped secure an economic recovery. And we stopped some of the worst Tory ideas. (We should have stopped others- we shouldn’t have agreed to the Bedroom tax in anything like its present form). Yes the party has made mistakes, but which party in power hasn’t ? I recall that Labour’s Julian Ware Lane mentioned on his blog a while back that the Lib Dems were facing an electoral firing squad. That’s going to be the case in many areas – but in most of the films I’ve seen, the people facing the firing squad were the good guys! We have achieved some things to be proud of, things you won’t find mentioned in the Daily Mail and the Express, such as restoring the link between pensions and earnings, lifting 3 million of the lowest paid out of having to pay income tax, and creating a record number of apprenticeships.

    We need a Lib Dem party in the future. For example, to try to stop the Right from using the economic recovery just to make the rich richer.

    We also need a Lib Dem party to emphasise liberal values of freedom and equality in a time when militant Islam is against those. For example, the Lib Dems led the way as a party in government campaigning against Female Genital Mutilation and we passed a motion at our last conference reaffirming freedom of speech.

    We also need a Lib Dem party to counter some of the views coming from UKIP. To give one concrete example, the husband of one of my wife’s friends has been a conscientious employee of a national retailer for 20 years. He happens to be of mixed race, and was being harassed by two colleagues , one of whom said “When UKIP win the election you’ll be sacked, N_____”. He did get some help from his employers after this, but I reassured my wife that UKIP weren’t anything like that extreme . But now I see that Farage is saying that racism in the workplace is over, we don’t need laws against discrimination any more! He doesn’t know the real situation or doesn’t care?

    Going independent wouldn’t help with any of this. ( I know it’s a bit more straightforward to change labels before you get elected. And I totally understand why people often stand as independents for parish councils)

    Finally, I don’t want to spend money on buying a different coloured rosette…. 😉

  • I know about those other creeps you mention Chris but I was commenting on your position not other Councillors or Parliamentarians. I could speak about, for instance, Mark Francois MP who as a Junior Armed Forces Minister, he was briefly in the TA so will have wide knowledge of warfare, was standing right behind Cameron last year promoting arming rebels in the Syrian debacle. Those rebels now form the rump of the terror group ISIS. It isn’t just scandal it is also the sheer incompetence of many party operatives that sickens me.

  • To start with , an excellent use of a word by Oz @ 12 – take a bow sir!!!!.

    Our country has an excellent record of welcoming and absorbing those fleeing
    oppression ( or worse ) even when much of the ‘working class’ we’re still struggling
    to scrape a living themselves ( and fighting the Fascists ).
    But today’s situation is on a different scale and driven by poverty rather than oppression ( it is called economic migration ) , and it needs to be talked about
    because it is dictating our future.
    The burden on a relatively small country is too great and needs to be controlled
    for no other reason than it has a natural limit which ,if not already, will someday be
    reached and implode.
    If you want an easy example it is that Council quota’s for housing are twice the actual need for ‘ natural growth’ because they are planning for un-natural growth that is out of control – and it is our children/ grandchildren that won’t be able to afford it.

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