‘This will destroy our community and all our wildlife’.

Residents from Havering and Essex join forces to fight the build of a huge service station that will see 45 hectares of wildlife land destroyed and endless lorries going down small country roads.

The Navestock and Noak Hill communities are preparing themselves to fight a planning application in Brentwood that would see a service station, lorry and coach parking area that will take up 45 hectares of land. The land is currently greenbelt land that has deer, foxes and endless wildlife on it.

“Where does it stop? How much of our wildlife is going to be destroyed?”, says one local campaigner. “One resident living in Navestock said to me that they were terrified for their house as it it is hundreds of years old and the endless lorries going by on such small roads will shake the foundations.

The development is due to be built between Chequers Lane and St Vincent’s Hamlet.

“Such a huge development will impact all our communities. Greenbelt land is the lungs of for London and we will be destroying a huge part of it here. There are endless animals on that land, including horses and badgers. All that will be lost to concrete. How will this impact air pollution? Flooding? All that will be vastly impacted because of this.”

Campaigners have formed a group from the M25 Junction 24 to Junction 25.

“We have written detailed letters of objections. We do not need another service station here. We are all small communities with small roads and are surrounded by greenbelt land and so much wildlife.”

Wildlife Rescue Group, Harold Hill Deer Aid have also formally objected to the MOTO development due to the destruction of wildlife it will cause.

Please see more information at http://www.m25nomoremsas.org.

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