I REPLY to the letter ‘ignore the objectors’ (Gazette, September 17).

In reply to your letter, Mr Sanders, I wonder if you took the time to attend the meetings at St Clere’s, to learn the facts about what will happen to your home town if this 350 home development were to go ahead?

The Government wants houses and no-one can argue that we need them, but most of the areas that use Basildon Hospital are already earmarked for further development, including Stanford and East Tilbury.

Both will already be putting plenty of extra strain on the infrastructure that you have already admitted, needs improvement.

But do you really think there is any money coming our way to make our doctors’ surgeries bigger, or cut the waiting lists at our dentists? Our children are not likely to have the numbers cut in their classes, they will only get bigger. And, if St Clere’s School takes in all those extra children, it will have to change its catchment area. You call us all selfish for objecting, but don’t you think all these reasons are good reasons for objecting?

You think other families have the right to live here – what about our rights, the families that already live here?

I haven’t even touched on the traffic – have you been out of your house in the rush hour. If you have, you will see that we simply cannot take an extra 220 cars an hour.

If the level crossing comes down for too long, or if there is an accident on the A13, Stanford comes to a standstill. Do you think maybe we are just realistic and maybe we just think there are plenty of other areas in this country that can be developed, areas that would cope better. – NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED.