The Developer, City & Country, have now submitted their planning application. You can view this on the Colchester Borough Planning website (
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). Comments and objections have to be in by 18th February 2019.
Some ideas for objections: Does not recognise we are an island • Restricted access due to single tidal road • Limited room for expansion for future generations • Whole island lying within the Coastal Protection Belt • Omissions of constraints, transport issues, incorrect housing data, lack of capacity for Medical care on the Island • No account taken of caravan and visitor numbers • Breaches the Local Plan that is to plan the whole of North Essex • ‘Affordable houses’ won’t be affordable for locals their cost will be far too high they will appeal to London Borough’s instead. • It will destroy local habit. • 200 homes = 468+ additional cars. 2.34 cars per household (source DVLA). Likely 800 additional vehicle movements per day. In January the island was closed to traffic for 4 hours. • All additional traffic has to come over Strood, Dawes Lane, East Road • How long before there’s a very serious accident at Strood/East Mersea Road junction. • Dawes Lane is an unclassified Road. • Parking is already a huge problem on Mersea especially in summer.