I wish to register my objection to the doubling of the number of residents of Baldock.

We have waiting lists for our schools at present; goodness knows how we shall manage to educate our children when there is no available school place for them to take up. I know there are plans to build a school on this new estate but unless it is up and running by the time the first family moves into the new houses there will begin an ever increasing waiting list for the existing schools.

We have at present three schools, all over subscribed, unless there is an equal number of places in the new promised school - what will likely be the same number of children - we have an even worse situation to surmount. I understand that a school large enough to accommodate the extra children is not in the plan. A worry for us all with small children and Grandchildren.