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354 Mrs Smith
355 Mr K Vingoe
356 Mr & Mrs D Dobbin
357 Ms V O'Malley
358 Mr & Mrs England
359 Mr New
360 Mr A J Eisenhauer
365 Mrs H J Springham
366 Mr S J Springham
369 Mr & Mrs Gauden
370 Mr G Biner
Yes, with so many offices and industrial estates vacant already for a long time, do we really need more built? The road
infrastructure in and around Rochford is abysmal, very busy and pot holed, patched to death. Use and improve what
already exists. Why are there so many new car centres springing up everywhere not many people can afford new cars.
Much of the Distict's employment is still provided in London and our surrounding districts. The nature of the availability of
employment also changes as a result of national trends. 1. The Parish Council would suggest that consideration could be
given to the existing provision on some industrial estates with the possiblity of change to residential accommodation and
industrial and commerical provision elsewhere. 2. Many existing estates perdominate in large warehouse type buildings
and consideration should be given to their conversion to provide more appropriate accommodation for smaller and 'start-up'
businesses. 3. The airport, while offering existing and potential future growth, could with the alteration and expansion
provide additional jobs.
In all the calculations there should not be an assumption that all new jobs will be manual ones. Space would also be
needed for offices, technical areas, health and other service areas as well as professional, academic and leisure. Ideally
any development that takes place should be near or adjacent to existing employment centres and it is most important to fill
gaps in the existing areas - High Streets, empty factory units, etc - before new developments take place. Important factors
are convenient and efficient communications - transport (buses, road, AND PARKING) and telecommunications. Many
people also work from home these days and this may reduce the need for additional land use, although this is currently not
statistically significant.
Obviously jobs should be close to where people live, so that we don't damage the environment with people using their cars
travelling lots of miles, public transport should be free to encourage people to use cars less.
Industrial estates are not suitable you can't get in or out of them. Build new town at Rawreth and jobs will be created by the
town infrastructure plus can work in London, Chelmsford or Colchester via road or rail with ease.
Expansion or use of existing on old industrial estates and business parks would seem to be the best answer. It would
enable existing services to be more fully used. Remove innate eyesore, avoid overspill and ribbon development.
The brownfield sites are available for jobs/commerce and an existing industrial estates even with the expected growth in
Southend Airport traffic which will probably tail off after the 2012 Olympics anyway.
Rayleigh, Hockley etc is prime commuter belt to London etc. 3,000 jobs therefore not needed in this area. There is not
guarantee that jobs created in RDC would be filled by residents of RDC. A lot of Makro employees come from Canvey,
Benfleet etc!
Does not council examine employment profiles in its own district. Rochford, Rayleigh etc are dormitory areas the greater
majority of people travel out of the area for work. 3000 new jobs are not required.
There are plenty of areas of the country where jobs could be created and businesses encouraged to move to reduce the
strain on our area.
One issue that should be considered is the traffic volumes and parking disturbances on the neighbouring residential areas
and the safey issues to pedestrians that these problems bring. Maybe we should be more selective as to what industries
and commercial developments we encourage to use the designated land. For example, should we not be encouraging
small local businesses, as opposed to giving up all of our land to big national companies.