The plan does not safeguard the vitality of Baldock Town Centre, or enhance the sense of community especially when the proposal is to build a new town Centre with shops and factories within the new development. Two separated communities will create a dearth of empty amenities in two locations, neither with a sense of community, nor will it recognize town centers as the heart of the community or support their viability and vitality.
Creating further industrial complexes simply adds to the already abandoned industrial areas around Baldock, which will only be exacerbated by the development of more empty industrial warehouses. It is difficult to see how this new settlement development will overall move the area from a net loss of biodiversity to a net gain.