Once again the people of Halstead find themselves under attack from developers. Permission for more housing estates are being applied for that do not meet the needs of local families, rather the greed of landowners and developers. Local planners and national planning inspectors seem intent on ignoring the views of residents and allow developments to go ahead without any acknowledgement of the legitimate concerns raised by residents. The development of the land east of Mount Hill has been approved despite real concerns over the damage this will cause to the environment in the form of excess water run off and the loss of habitat for wildlife.