BA6 Land at Icknield Way

This area is currently largely derelict. I believe it is valuable to keep such small areas of employment scattered throughout the community for two reasons -
1. It maintains the presence of people throughout the working day and thus mitigates the effect of the local residents commuting away to work, leaving the area deserted for much of the time and possibly rendering some forms of crime more likely (e.g. burglary).
2. It may have a minor effect on traffic by slightly reducing the flow on the major commuting routes out of the town.

access on this road is very bad and more through traffic not acceptable. There is an expectation that town can cope with the new properties under BA2, BA3, BA4, BA5 BA6, BA7, BA11 excluding those under BA1 with not support which is incorrect.
There is an expectation that Baldock can just take the 800 additional homes with no impact. Child care, schooling, sports facilities are already under significant strain with both Hartsfield and Knights Templar dropping an Ofsted rating at the last review.