Indeed, we were horrified by the
removal by the Conservative majority at the District Council of the
protective covenants on these sites, which we fought long and hard in
2015.
Developing the proposed sites would adversely affect
air quality in the Epping Forest Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by
pollution from residents' cars, and would adversely add to the
recreational pressure on the SAC.
Luctons Field is an area of
valuable open grassland that has never been developed. It was a green
meadow till 1950, then a playing field. It contributes greatly to
Loughton's biodiversity.
The quality of life in St Mary's and
Alderton Wards would be impaired because there is insufficient
infrastructure for such a development:
There are no school places.
GP surgeries are already oversubscribed.
It would make the local parking problems and the crowding on the Central Line worse.
Trains are already overcrowded at Debden in the peak hours.
Acting
as an Association, LRA opposes all over-intensive development proposals
in Loughton. However, LRA councillors have to act separately from the
Association in relation to planning proposals because they have to take
planning decisions solely on the basis of the evidence presented at
planning committee meetings. However, when these proposals become a
formal planning application to the District Council, your councillors
will ask searching questions, and the LRA Plans Group will ask
residents for their views.
