Representation by Roland Cook
- Date submitted
- 13 March 2021
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Swanscombe marshes is a totally inappropriate place for the development. Gravesend to the east, Dartford to the west, Thames to the North and A2 to the south, the Bluewater shopping mall inside that area. The infrastructure cannot cope at the moment. This development will create traffic chaos. My daughter lives at Greenhithe and frequently cannot get home from work. She only works two miles from home at the Crossways site. Swanscombe marshes is a designated site of special scientific interest and is part of a corridor for nature. Rainham marshes just beyond the Dartford crossing, the RSPB reserves at Cliffe pools and High Halstow and continuing down the river to the Oar marshes and Sheppey. It is vital for wildlife that Swanscombe remains part of this wildlife corridor along the Thames. We are at a time in our history where bio diversity and climate change are at the forefront of our thinking. We must protect this site and look for an alternative brown field site (of which there are many) for this development. The only reason why the developers do not want to build on a brown field site is because it is much more expensive to do so. They would rather destroy the environment and save money than build on an existing brown field site that has already been developed which will cost them much more. Planting thousands of trees to compensate does not create a habitat. Habitats take hundreds of years to develop. Build this development on a brown field site.