Up to 20,000 new homes have been proposed by land-owners at Marks Tey. This is not the right place for a new town the size of Witham:

• Local roads, trains and services will be overwhelmed. Marks Tey is too far from Colchester for cycling and walking so residents will be reliant on their cars.
• Nearby villages will be engulfed and farmland and open countryside will be lost forever.
• There will not be enough jobs and this will become a dormitory town attracting commuters.