In response to the North Herts Development Local plan.

As long term Hertfordshire county council tenant farmers of this land we obviously do not want this development to go ahead!

Living & working the land surrounding Baldock we have been able to provide a valuable service to the surrounding towns, providing a choice of local produce & provide services & facilities for the equestrian leisure industry, on selling off these small holding these valuable businesses will be lost for good! Small holdings on Greenbelt land provides unique businesses to serve rural towns once lost you won't get them back....

In response to the development of Baldock town, this will almost double the size of a attractive & vibrant coaching town completely distorting a already congested centre. I can not see even with putting in a road link from the A507 across the railway line will you be able to ease an already congested road, unless the railway station moves out of the site its at & moves further north it will not be able to cope with the volume of people & traffic.... I can only envisage total grid lock!!!

2,800 new homes should be allocated on a site away from existing towns, this is a new town which should be positioned on its own, its own right where infrastructure can be laid out in place where it will work, example an 'Odsey Development' by Ashwell Station on A505, a town in its own right, oh but of course that's not North Herts Land you say... Drop the boundaries & plan together!!!