This site with a proposal for approximately 200 dwellings is sensitive for development.

The NHDC Land Allocations - Additional Suggested Sites July, 2009 highlighted the site's weaknesses as:

i. Green field site as grade 3 agricultural land

ii. Adjoins a conservation area

iii. Site is groundwater source protection zone 3

iv. Site is located next to the A1M

v. Identified constraints on utilities and capacity of primary school

vi. Flooding in the adjoining Wimpey estate has also occurred this past winter

Council's weakness iv above has recently been reinforced by the Department for Transport in their A1 East of England strategic study: interim report of August 2016 which concluded, inter alia, that parts of the A1 are located unacceptably close to residential locations, causing unpleasant environmental conditions for local residents. It is hard to understand how moving Knebworth closer to the A1(M) is consistent with this very recent government finding.

In summary the site has the capacity for new dwellings but no other attributes.