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Dear Epping Forest District Council Planning,

Please find attached an objection letter to planning application EPF/0109/20 on behalf of Navestock Parish Council.

Unfortunately the comments box within the application on the Planning Portal was of insufficient size to post there.

I trust this route will allow our objection to be successfully registered with the Planning Department.

Regards

Victor Simmons Navestock Parish Council Clerk

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Objection to Planning Application Ref: EPF/0109/20 Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club, Horseman Side, Romford, RM4 1JU

22nd June 2020

Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club lies on the borders of the boroughs of Brentwood, Epping & neighbouring Havering. Due to the lack of communication and enforcement by all 3 boroughs, this Green Belt area has been subject to breaches in planning and environmental regulations.

The area in which the above application lies is in Epping, although planning has been sought through Brentwood to move the Gardeners Shed located on the proposed mobile home site, to the of the golf club grounds. This was subsequently refused by Brentwood earlier this year.

Neither Brentwood nor Navestock Parish Council were made aware of this application for 40 mobile homes on this site, with Brentwood only being informed once Epping had become aware Brentwood had not been sent the application. We have still not officially received any notification of this application from any of these 3 authorities.

If granted, the application for 40 mobile homes would have a negative effect on our rural Parish, it’s residents and its wildlife.

The proposed site of these mobile homes lies in an area where 3 traveller’s sites are overrun with illegal caravans & mobile homes. This has put immense pressure on the surrounding area, increasing traffic on its lanes that pass through this area, amenities & the lack of sanitation systems has left the ditches in adjoining lanes, overflowing all year round with raw sewage & waste. Theft & anti-social behaviour is rife, with drug dealing taking place in the golf club’s car park. All this can be verified by Police and Metropolitan Police Forces, who have carried out many operations in the area and continue to do so.

No public transport is accessible to or from the golf club and the extra vehicle movements created by such a facility, would increase the heavy traffic that already speeds through its narrow, winding, ill- maintained lanes.

This area of Navestock has suffered uncertainty for a considerable time with the sale of Priors Golf Course on Horseman Side, Navestock. This formed part of Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club. Priors Golf Course was sold to the traveller community and associates but resold to local residents at hugely inflated prices, in the belief that this would prevent the illegal settlements of caravans and mobile homes taking place on this land. Recently a small section of Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club, situated with access to Murthering Lane, was sold to a well-known traveller from Curtis Mill Green. Once again it was offered to local residents at a hugely inflated price in order to encourage them to buy the land, in the belief that this would prevent another illegal site blighting our Parish.

To the side of this land and adjoining to the golf course, just inside the 500m radius that was surveyed in the golf clubs report, lies Spring Farm in Murthering Lane. It houses Skip Ahoy, a waste disposal company that is unlicensed, processing a variety of waste. Dumping & toxic fires from this site have been a concern to local residents in recent years, as has the concrete crusher that continues through the day from the early hours of the morning until late at night including weekends. This has been witnessed by Brentwood Council and passed on to the Environmental Agency for further investigations. Heavy traffic is continuous, with lorries not only from Skip Ahoy but from different disposal companies & disposal vans, using the yard seven days a week. Toxic fires from Springvale Farm, Goatswood Lane, a third of a mile from the proposed site, are also of concern.

It therefore begs the questions why in this unsightly, volatile area which shows no sign of abating, would Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club offer these leisure mobile homes to their customers or are able to justify its viability as an ongoing business and the need for such facilities?

We therefore object to the above planning application on Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club.

For and on behalf of Navestock Parish Council