The plan provides too much housing at the expense of precious countryside. North Herts is supposed to be a rural district, but it plans 14,000 houses for the district, plus 2,000 for Luton plus 3,000 for Stevenage. That makes 19,000 which is about 50% increase in 15 years. In what sense is this objective or sustainable or even common sense? We are privileged in North Herts to still have access to some beautiful countryside and landscape. Is it really good stewardship to base policy on the premise that as long as people want to come here, we should keep building over the countryside until they no longer want to? On that reasoning, it is inevitable that the London conurbation will expand to fill Hertfordshire. Is this going to continue until we reach equilibrium when everywhere in the UK, and eventually the world, becomes equally undesirable? Given the terrible wealth inequality in the world these are tough questions, but have our planners and policy makers really thought this through, and do they have a mandate for such profound decisions? Maybe now is the time to stand up and push back.