The strategy for developing so many houses on the Blackhorse Farm site north of Baldock is not so much strategic planning as disaster planning. Councillor Levitt has made it clear on many occasions that if NHDC don't submit a plan 'we are in the hands of the developers'. However, the number of houses on this site is unmanageable in regard of many NPPF guidelines. NHDC in their own report (attached) state that 'There is unlikely to be a housing need within the existing settlements in this area to justify a development of this scale', nothing has happened in Baldock to change this view in 3 years yet they continue with their 'strategic plan' even in after 8000 responses and no significant change to the plan with the clear public concern. The strategy is 'to fill our housing quota' and this is at the expense of Baldock & Bygrave