CD1 Land south of Cowards Lane

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Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 537

Received: 20/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Ross Clark

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Green Belt, wildlife, buffer between village and river valley, no exceptional circumstances, impact on character of Codicote, smaller brownfield sites in village preferable, infrastructure (general), traffic, GP capacity

Full text:

This land is green belt, Government policy allows for the building on green belt in exceptional circumstances, increasing the size of the village by almost 25% in an area that clearly can not cope now with services and amenities is not exceptional, not when one of the smaller proposed brownfield sites is preferable (CD2 on old garden centre). Codicote is a small village set in rural countryside in what is an ever increasing urban commuter belt. This expansion here would alter it's character detrimentally, affect the tight knit community and most importantly destroy yet more habitat for wildlife. We ourselves moved to the village 3 years ago from a large town, we live in the same road is the primary school but had to appeal the council's decision at a hearing as our son was not allowed at the school due to class overcrowding. I understand there will be some school expansion however that is only finite as the school is hemmed in by housing and could not cope with the numbers proposed with such massive building. Codicote suffers from traffic congestion as it acts as a back route for traffic travelling north and south avoiding the congested A1(M) and traffic travelling east and west across the country avoiding the clogged A roads. I am a local traffic police officer and have attended serious collisions within the village boundaries, believe me they are not reducing and I worry for my children. The campaign to save rural codicote has commissioned a detailed traffic survey, the conclusion of this is that development of Codicote would substantially increase car journeys, there being very poor public transport and limited and expensive shopping. I have to concur with the report's author. The nearest doctors surgery is located in Welwyn village, this is practically groaning under the weight of patients with waiting times extending to weeks. Quite where these extra families are going to get there medical care is beyond me. In short this village will have its sole ripped out and will not be the place we wanted to live when we moved from a big town should this level of development go ahead

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 570

Received: 21/11/2016

Respondent: Mr and Mrs Victoria and Daniel Hibbins

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: The proposal is unsound and unsustainable for many reasons but primarily due to the current road conditions which are already a threat to our children's safety.

Full text:

I am writing to strongly oppose the development and over-residentialisation of sites in Codicote and specifically that of Cowards Lane.
Codicote is an ancient village of historic interest, the character and preservation of which is of enormous importance.
Traffic
The main road through the village is lined closely on both sides with attractive, period cottages and houses and the road is further constrained by parked cars belonging to the cottages.
The High Street is the main thoroughfare between the A1 and Welwyn and Hitchin, Knebworth, parts of Stevenage and the surrounding villages and is regularly blocked by weight of traffic, especially during the rush hours, following an accident on the A1 or at any time of lorry deliveries to and from the quarry, to businesses or at refuse collection times. Traffic is already way in excess of capacity.
The roads leading from Codicote to the surrounding villages are single track lanes at many points and are already totally unsuitable for either the volume or size of vehicles that use them. There are many serious accidents along the lanes, often caused by rush hour speeding. These lanes are shared by many horse riders and cyclists and are already extremely dangerous. The area where Cowards Lane meets St Albans Road (and subsequent access to the school) it notoriously dangerous to our children making their way to school with huge lorries back and forth to the quarry and blind crossing due to the many, many parked cards.
The road surfaces are already unacceptable and these standards will only descend to almost impossible levels with an increased level of traffic using roads in the area.
Public transport is simply not comprehensive enough to be practical for the vast majority of residents.
The levels of pollution will rise with increased traffic with resultant health issues for any residents with asthma and other breathing related illnesses. There will also be pollution damage to historic buildings, flora and fauna.
Schools
The school provision is plainly inadequate for the large influx of children that this new housing will produce. Codicote Primary School is already over-subscribed from the current population.
Under the National Planning Policy Framework 2012, the Government states that 'key facilities such as primary schools ....should be located within walking distance of most properties. The Government attaches great importance to ensuring that a sufficient choice of school places is available to meet the needs of existing and new communities.'
There will also be increased pressure on the secondary schools in the wider area and the necessarily increased transport links.
Green Belt
Codicote stands in the Green Belt and is therefore protected from development and expansion.
According to the National Planning Policy Framework 2012, the idea of the Green Belt 'is a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure can be expected to prevail.' The Framework continues: 'Once an area of land has been defined as green belt, the stated opportunities and benefits include:
* Providing opportunities for access to the open countryside for the urban population
* Providing opportunities for outdoor sport and outdoor recreation near urban areas
* The retention of attractive landscapes and the enhancement of landscapes, near to where people live
* The securing of nature conservation interests
* The retention of land in agricultural, forestry and related uses
* Green belt in England is protected both by normal planning controls and against "inappropriate development" within its boundaries.'

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 587

Received: 21/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Jane Colston

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Traffic, education, wildlife, drainage / water run off, highway safety, local services (health centres, refuse and recycling collection, roads, care of the elderly and disabled in their homes)

Full text:

Land south of Cowards Lane:
Huge impact on already congested High Street
Huge impact on an already over-subscribed school
Huge impact on wildlife
Huge impact on drainage and risk of water run off
Huge impact on local services - health centres, refuse and recycling collection, standard of the roads, child road safety, elderly road safety, care of the elderly and disabled in their homes as numbers increase, with lack of extra provision in all of these areas.
Heath Lane
Huge impact on already congested roads - lanes and High Street.
Huge impact on an already over-subscribed school
Huge impact on wildlife
Huge impact on drainage and risk of water run off
Huge impact on local services - health centres, refuse and recycling collection, standard of the roads, child road safety, elderly road safety, care of the elderly and disabled in their homes as numbers increase with lack of extra provision in all of these areas.
No space to increase the size of the school.
Garden Centre:
Huge impact on already congested High Street
Huge impact on an already over-subscribed school
Huge impact on wildlife
Huge impact on drainage and risk of water run off
Huge impact on local services - health centres, refuse and recycling collection, standard of the roads, child road safety, elderly road safety, care of the elderly and disabled in their homes as numbers increase with lack of extra provision in all of these areas.
Loss of provision for the elderly who use the only cafe in Codicote that they can walk to.
The Close
Huge impact on already congested roads
Huge impact on an already over-subscribed school
Huge impact on wildlife
Huge impact on drainage and risk of water run off
Huge impact on local services - health centres, refuse and recycling collection, standard of the roads, child road safety, elderly road safety, care of the elderly and disabled in their homes as numbers increase with lack of extra provision in all of these areas.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 819

Received: 24/11/2016

Respondent: Miss Debbie Skeggs

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD2:
- Environment
- Character
- Community infrastructure and access to facilities
- Wildlife
- Highway infrastructure and parking
- Power
- Water
- Drainage

Full text:

Implication for collage in terms of :
Environment
Character
Community
Access to healthcare
Infrastructure
Wildlife
Traffic
Parking
Road safety
Schooling
Power
Water
Drainage

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 835

Received: 24/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Gary and Pam Batchelor

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Objection to CD1 on the grounds of:
- do not build on green belt
- significant archaeological importance
- wildlife
- loss of open space
- historic village
- size of the development
- no health facilities
- traffic
- parking
- road safety
- schooling
- transport, bus services poor
- B656 gridlocked at rush hour then Cowards Lane used as a cut through. No pavements a single track lane.

- Develop a new garden city
- The infrastructure needs to be put in place before any development goes ahead.

Full text:

I agree there is a need for new housing, but building on this green belt site which has significant archaeological importance, wildlife and a loss of open space when entering a very historic village. I am concerned about the size of the development in the village, no health facilities, traffic, parking, road safety, schooling. Transport, bus services poor. The B656 gridlocked at rush hour then Cowards Lane used as a cut through. No pavements a single track lane.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 863

Received: 21/11/2016

Respondent: Ms Sheila Grimmant

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object on the following grounds:
travel in and out the village is increasingly problematic;
roads are inadequate for additional traffic;
no medical facilities; and
infrastructure.

Full text:

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Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 915

Received: 26/11/2016

Respondent: Ms Shirley Richards

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Building on the Greenbelt.
- Highway infrastructure and congestion.
- Alternative transport for villages.

Full text:

This land is precious green belt that cannot be replaced. Building on this site will create extra traffic and parking in an already busy part of the village. Living on the High Street I see the problems caused on a daily basis of the traffic flow through the village. The already extra houses near Welwyn are causing jams up through Codicote. This added to a growth of 25% to our village plus extra in Hitchin and Knebworth will mean gridlock. There is no alternative transport for the village. The A1 itself cannot sustain this amount of extra dwellings.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1054

Received: 27/11/2016

Respondent: Mr S T Carr

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

I believe the NHDC plan is unsound and will have implications for the village in terms of:
Environment
Character
Community
Access to healthcare
Infrastructure
Wildlife
Employment
Traffic
Parking
Road Safety
Schooling
Power
Water
Drainage

Build a new garden city, expansion of village is not sustainable.

Full text:

I believe the NHDC plan is unsound and will have implications for the village in terms of:
Environment
Character
Community
Access to healthcare
Infrastructure
Wildlife
Employment
Traffic
Parking
Road Safety
Schooling
Power
Water
Drainage

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1137

Received: 16/11/2016

Respondent: Ms Wenda N Satchell

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: environment, character, community access to healthcare, infrastructure, wildlife, employment, traffic, schooling, power, water and drainage.

Full text:

I wish to register the fact that I am totally against the 315 new house building proposal.
The extra influx of residents and cars would be detrimental to the village in terms of environment character community access to healthcare INFRASTUCTURE wildlife employment parking road safety schooling power water drainage.

At the commuting periods in the day the traffic is almost at gridlock when passing through the High Street. As and when there are roadworks or building projects requiring coned off sections of the road, tailbacks develop and often traffic backs up if going north into Old Welwyn. Old Welwyn village is a bottleneck area in the mornings, extra building in this area will just exacerbate the already dire traffic situation.
When an incident occurs on the A1 motorway I have had to on occasions detour via Wheathampstead in order to reach home in Codicote High Street.
If an Ambulance has to get through on the B 197 in either direction it will NOT BE ABLE TO in an emergency.
Further development of housing is shear lunacy. Infrastructure is totally inadequate

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1268

Received: 29/11/2016

Respondent: C Skeggs

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

I object to the NHDC's plan and believe it is unsound and will have implications for the village in terms of:
Environment
Character
Community
Access to healthcare
Infrastructure
Wildlife
Employment
Traffic including the safety of our children and damage to our vehicles
Volume of traffic and the impact on the road maintenance
Parking
Road Safety
Schooling
Power
Water
Drainage

Full text:

I object to the NHDC's plan and believe it is unsound and will have implications for the village in terms of:
Environment
Character
Community
Access to healthcare
Infrastructure
Wildlife
Employment
Traffic including the safety of our children and damage to our vehicles
Volume of traffic and the impact on the road maintenance
Parking
Road Safety
Schooling
Power
Water
Drainage

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1354

Received: 29/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Christopher Lakin

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Greenfield site
- Agricultural land
- Cowards lane (restricted with size limits) is not suitable for this development nor the other proposed site CD5.
- Current highway infrastructure, access and capacity

Full text:

The proposed land is currently green field site and has been kept in a way that meets the requirements for organic farming.
Cowards lane (restricted with size limits) is not suitable for this development nor the other proposed site CD5, as a daily user of this road it is often a car shuffle between drive ways to pass each other. By increasing demand for this lane it will only make matters worse. The junction to Codicote Road is also not suitable for increased traffic flow.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1393

Received: 29/11/2016

Respondent: Mr H Bedworth

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Environment, Character, Community, Access to healthcare, Infrastructure, Wildlife, Employment, Traffic including the safety of our children and damage to our vehicles, Volume of traffic and the impact on the road maintenance, Parking, Road Safety, Schooling, Power, Water, Drainage

Full text:

I object to the NHDC's plan and believe it is unsound and will have implications for the village in terms of:
Environment
Character
Community
Access to healthcare
Infrastructure
Wildlife
Employment
Traffic including the safety of our children and damage to our vehicles
Volume of traffic and the impact on the road maintenance
Parking
Road Safety
Schooling
Power
Water
Drainage

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1418

Received: 29/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Alex Baker

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: traffic congestion, lack of facilities, Green Belt, impact upon Codicote

Full text:

High Street already heavily congested with village used as a cut through by residents of Hitchin and surrounding area to avoid A1. Not enough facilities for extra housing. Green belt land and important Codicote remains as a village NOT a town.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1443

Received: 29/11/2016

Respondent: Mr David Hancock

Legally compliant? No

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Green Belt, traffic, impact on Codicote

Full text:

I would like to object to this plan as it is not consistent with the national plan regarding protection of Green Belt land. It will also greatly increase the traffic on an already very busy road, especially during the rush hours. Codicote High Street already comes to a standstill in the early morning with all the buses, coaches and heavy lorries using it. Any major increase in housing that this plan proposes will make living in Codicote almost unbearable.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1452

Received: 29/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Catharine Ruddlesden

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Impact on property value, traffic, impact on environment, character and wildlife of the village, health infrastructure, parking, education provision

Full text:

I strongly object to the proposed site for 73 houses to be built literally on our doorstep. Our home overlooks open fields (the proposed site)and we have already seen a vast increase in traffic and pollution from the High Street on the other side and this development will leave us living virtually on a roundabout. Clearly this will devalue our property. Codicote High St will be unable to support the increase in vehicles from this and other proposed developments. Yesterday it took me 35minutes to drive from Cowards Lane to the A1. The plan is unsound, affecting the environment, character and wildlife of the village. Access to healthcare is already under pressure, trying to book an urgent doctor's appointment is virtually impossible [...] Parking also is already a real issue with cars, vans and lorries parking on the High St causing turning out of Cowards Lane to be extremely dangerous, especially as through traffic increases speed just at that point. There is no secondary school in Codicote and places for chosen schools are already under pressure (we had no choice but to send our own children in different directions-Welwyn Garden and Hitchin- as even after two appeals we were unable to secure them places in the same town.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1521

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Jeremy Chandler-Smith

Legally compliant? No

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1 on the grounds of:
- Houses will lead to increased traffic and congestion.
- Local school already at capacity.

Full text:

Cowards lane is a very constricted lane. A development of 73 to the south of the lane is likely to lead to the lane (already used as a cut through) becoming extremely congested and hazardous to pedestrian users (who walk along the lane to get to the playing field. Likewise, St Albans Road is now frequently blocked by traffic to and from the quarry. I overlook the junction of the High Street and St Albans Road and often count 10 or more lorries in a 5 minute period. The road cannot take anymore traffic and is hazardous for pedestrians. 73 houses is likely to mean 146 car and the B656 is often static at peak times. local residents in Newtown can take 10 minutes or more waiting to exit the road. those who live on the High Street are placed at risk when entering and exiting their cars. the traffic comes through the village and does not benefit the village in any way. The local school is at capacity.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1543

Received: 22/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Faith Patience

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object on the following grounds:
High Street cannot cope with existing traffic;
drainage system is old;
problems with sewage;
no doctors surgery; and
no senior school.

Full text:

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Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1577

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Colin Argent

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Loss of green belt
- Access - Codicote High Street already very congested at peak times. Additional vehicles trying to turn right onto this will exacerbate the situation.
- Housing - NHDC are pushing extra houses on local communities to support Luton and Stevenage requirement. Development of a new Garden town/city should be prioritised
- Small development with more affordable housing required to allow local children to be able to afford to live locally

Full text:

Loss of green belt
Access - Codicote High Street already very congested at peak times. Additional vehicles trying to turn right onto this will exacerbate the situation.
Housing - NHDC are pushing extra houses on local communities to support Luton and Stevenage requirement. Development of a new Garden town/city should be prioritised

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1598

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Felicity Moody

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Objection to CD1:
- Green belt land
- increase in traffic that these houses would encourage
- traffic incidents within the area - accident, parking issues, HGVs blocking the road
Build a new town in an area where all the above can be taken into consideration

Full text:

Ridiculous ! Green belt land
Codicote can not with stand the proposed increase in traffic that these houses would encourage. As a Traffic Officer for Hertfordshire Constabulary we regularly are called for traffic incidents within the area - accident, parking issues, HGVs blocking the road - to name but a few.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1629

Received: 24/11/2016

Respondent: Mr and Mrs Richard and Heather Bardner

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Traffic - roads and pedestrian access not appropriate, agricultural machinery on roads, lack of public transport, no doctors, no employment, Green Belt.

Full text:

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Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1637

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mr Robert Nevshehir

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Broadband infrastructure is not sufficient to support new houses.

Full text:

Broadband infrastructure is not sufficient to support new houses.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1710

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Ms Ruth Argent

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Scale of development
- increased traffic levels
- Local employment opportunities
- Loss of Green Belt
- Brownfield sites available

Full text:

The scale of the development is completely inappropriate for the village which will have a detrimental effect on the village causing an increased in the traffic volume and congestion as there are few opportunities for employment in the village.

NHDC's Local Plan of 1996 and again in 2007 confirmed that the status of the land around Codicote was Green Belt and it was protected accordingly. Why is land that NHDC considered should be "permanently open" 9 years ago now likely to end up underneath 315 houses by 2031.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1835

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Mary Henn

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Green belt, lack of highway infrastructure, improvements needed to pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, concerns on the impact on bio-diversity.



Full text:

What exceptional circumstances are there for building housing on greenbelt land?
The vehicle access proposed to the site will be difficult and will cause problems on St Albans Rd.
How will providing for pedestrian and cycle access help when the roads they come onto are not safe for cyclists or pedestrians.
Concerned about protection of wildlife and habitats when landowner has already grubbed out hedgerow and killed the remains off.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1844

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Dr Andrew Fiske-Jackson

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Improvements required to highway infrastructure to ease congestion and improve pedestrian safety.

Full text:

I commute to work via the A1; congestion on the B656 results in a queue from the A1 back as far as Codicote Garden Centre. We need solutions to this transport problem not more houses resulting in more cars. There is no train station in Codicote so there is no other option but to use this road. There are children walking to school along this busy road. They risk their lives with the number of cars rushing through the village. More children and more cars will only result in an unimaginable accident. Codicote's roads cannot cope with any more traffic.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1861

Received: 24/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs A Weekes

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1: Traffic and access, infrastructure in relation to doctors surgery capacity and sewerage.

Full text:

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Attachments:

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 1885

Received: 22/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Sarah Plain

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Objections to CD1: Public transport, Highway safety and infrastructure, parking facilities, key community services, public rights of way

Full text:

NHDC Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft
Section Four - Communities
* Codicote(13.77)
* * CD1 Land south of Cowards Lane
* * CD2 Codicote Garden Centre, High Street
* * CD3 Land north of The Close
* * CD5 Land south of Heath Lane
Objections are as follows:
The proposed sites are all on Green Belt land and there are no 'exceptional circumstances' that warrant building on them. As our local M.P. Stephen McPartland states " the local plan is not positively prepared, justified, effective or consistent with national policy". He suggests consideration should be given to a new Garden City. It is not justifiable for Codicote to lose so much recreational space i.e the open countryside. Our local NHDC Councillor for Codicote Jane Gray is also "not in favour of the plan" and states that there should be an "urgent attempt to establish a new settlement in the District". Why has this not been considered by NHDC? This would save the character of so many villages being destroyed in North Hertfordshire.
Codicote does not have the infrastructure to cope with more houses. There is a poor bus service and no train station, therefore people need to use cars to travel in and out of the village. The roads are clogged with parked cars and over run with commuters using the B656 as an alternative route to the A1M. Other roads that allow access to the village, are simple, narrow, country roads. There is no Doctors Surgery in Codicote and getting an appointment at neighbouring Doctors is difficult. What improvements to services are planned to cope with all the new patients? We regularly get power cuts and breaks in Broadband service, what plans are there to cope with the extra draw on power and services?
Parking for the current school is not sufficient, with local residents experiencing blocked drives and difficulty accessing their properties. This situation will get worse if the school is expanded. How will the issue of parking for the School, be addressed? There is no more capacity in the roads surrounding the school. St Albans road near the school is notoriously dangerous for school children to cross, due to the parked cars and HGV lorries that travel up and down the road, to the Quarry. (Reducing the number of lorries has been, so far, unsuccessful by campaigners). A bigger school can only mean more parked cars and more children walking to school on this dangerous road. It is also not sustainable to create a larger school, as there as there is no expansion planned for the local secondary school. The proposed school site has a footpath running through it, how can you have a footpath through a school site? (ref 13.77 CD5 "sensitive incorporation of existing rights of way")
Please consider all the above objections to this plan.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 2681

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mr & Mrs Martino & Evgenia Coppola

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Loss of Green Belt
- Landscape Character
- Wildlife and biodiversity
- Scale of Development
- Highway infrastructure and congestion
- Pedestrian and cyclist safety
- Current rail infrastructure
- Education facilities at capacity
- Air and noise pollution
- Housing needs assessment and alternative solutions

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Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 2728

Received: 30/12/2016

Respondent: Ms Angela Kane

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object on the following grounds:
loss of village character;
traffic;
education provision; and
insufficient infrastructure.

Full text:

I would like to register my objection to the amount of housing being planned for Codicote. I appreciate that you must build houses somewhere but I don't understand why you have to destroy villages in the process. I don't think there is anyone in the council that appreciate how much traffic goes through this old village from outside the village let alone the locals. How do you plan on dealing with this?... Knock one side of the high street down. This high street was never built to cope with this amount of traffic, we are now inundated with huge lorries. Obviously we are going too have to take legal action somewhere along the line...as every house you build will have at the very least two cars....there is not in infrastructure here for that amount of housing. Last year we had all the trouble with the school not being able to allocate places for all the local children...that will only get worse. I know there must be some housing, but there is constantly houses being built here on every scrap of land...in gardens...you name it they build there.

Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 2781

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Mr & Mrs Andrew, Joan, Alistair and James Shiach

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to CD1:
- Green Belt
- Scale of development
- Highway infrastructure and congestion
- Transport assessments
- Access constraints
- Employment opportunities
- Infrastructure requirements
- Water supply and sewage
- Education facilities
- Healthcare facilities
- Affordable housing
- Available brownfield sites
- Land West of Stevenage

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Object

Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Representation ID: 2817

Received: 30/11/2016

Respondent: Ms Judith M Coxell

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to CD4:
- Building on the Green Belt
- Brownfield sites
- Employment opportunities
- Transport/Public transport
- Highway infrastructure and congestion
- Reduced air quality

Full text:

Find below my objections to the local plan for Codicote:-

Of the 4 sites (CD1 - CD4), 3 will involve building on green belt (CD1, CD3 and CD4). According to NPPF this should only be carried out in exceptional circumstances. Building on green belt will change the character of the area by reducing the distance between villages.

CD2 which is a brownfield site although a preferred site for redevelopment also provides one of the few opportunities for employment within the village.

Transport does not appear to be considered problematic. Public transport is limited and therefore it is likely that at least 2 cars per dwelling will be added to the car total in Codicote. All the proposed building sites will discharge their traffic onto the B656 which is already busy on weekdays at peak times. Adding a possible 600+ further cars will further exacerbate the queues which build up in the High Street and mean that it frequently takes 25 minutes to travel the 2.5 miles to the A1. A problem on the A1 increases the congestion further. The road congestion is aggravated by the trucks going to the quarry. All these reduce the air quality in the High Street.