This is a copy of my letter to Epping Forest District Council.

As a long-term resident of Loughton, I have been horrified, appalled and totally disgusted by the proposal by the planning department of our council.

You are proposing to build on virtually every car park in Loughton/Debden as well as building on virtually every bit of green still left in Loughton/Debden as well as on the library!!

This considering that already there is totally insufficient and inadequate car parking spaces especially at Loughton and Debden stations as a result of which all our roads near the stations are constantly congested by commuter parking when residents of these streets are unable to park near their houses already!

Furthermore as there will not be any parking left at either station, nor in Clifton Road, where on earth are the people living in the new homes supposed to park considering that currently, most houses have at least two cars?

You kept banging on about creating more jobs! When you are closing all the car parks especially the one in Clifton Road which people use to park to go to the local shops, where are they supposed to park to use local amenities?

All the local shops on the High Road will have to shut which would lead to net loss of jobs and not an increase in employment as you erroneously claim.

Furthermore, the closure of the library car park is bound to affect parking for the leisure facility and swimming pool.

People won’t even be able to use the only leisure facility available in Loughton!

I wonder as to what inducements the councillors have had to even think of this irrational, crass, madcap and totally unthought-through proposal?

Is one of the local large construction companies going to get all the contracts again as usual?

I wonder what was the reason that there were two weeks ONLY for consultation and that this fact was not widely advertised nor was each household circulated about it or the the planning proposal which all sounds very suspicious.

Hopefully there was no sinister ulterior motive behind it in so far as the decision is already made and the consultation is just a sham and pretence which is going to be completely ignored anyway!

I sincerely hope that this crazy proposal will be dropped as quickly as it has cropped up before it causes more severe damage to our local amenities.

Dr Kai Kermani

Connaught Hill

Loughton