This proposal has not featured in previous versions of the plan and therefore there has been no consultation on it. Development of this area of land would bring the boundary of Knebworth directly next to the development already proposed for the West of Stevenage and would mean Knebworth would cease to be a village. Due to the topography of the land it would be above the current village and create a new urban skyline to a rural location. It would destroy current agricultural land and increase the problems of drainage that the current use of the land helps to mitigate.