I am writing to strongly object to the plans to build at the sites EL1,EL2 and EL3 around the East of Luton.
Firstly it would completely absorb the village of Cockernhoe and Mangrove Green, no matter how large the "buffer" area is around this new estate it will cause the village to disappear. Tea Green to the south would also disappear, these villages need to be left as stand alone villages! This is GREEN BELT, there are plenty of brown field sites around Luton that would be more suitable for housing with better infrastructure to take many new houses. This leads me on to my next point infrastructure, the traffic around this part of town is already quite bad, what with the extra passengers coming to the airport and airport staff and general traffic the roads are often very busy queues in excess of 700 metres are quite common daily along Eaton Green Road and Crawley Green Road to add another possible 5000 cars to this without improving the road layouts will be horrendous.
These people will also need feeding there is only one supermarket locally which is also very busy at the moment so adding thousands of more people will cause a real problem which means the current local population may go else where to shop adding to the other traffic problems in town Stockingstone Hill for example. Doctors and schools cannot cope in this area now let alone when 5000+ additional people turn up.
This is a nice bit of country side with quite a varied selection of wildlife that will be all driven away by so many houses and all the extra traffic, many people use this area for recreation IE walking, running, cycling and horse riding, this will all be ruined. I know we need more houses but there are other areas that would be more suitable, once this area has gone its gone for good, the villages will be lost forever, Luton, Dunstable, Houghton Regis and Stopsley were all individual towns and villages NOW it is just one large mass with no physical boarders, apart from street signs you would not know where one ends and the next begins, please don't add Cockernhoe, Mangrove Green and Tea Green to this mass!!