Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Please see below for some feedback. Call me a sceptic but it seems utterly morally reprehensible that the town with the lowest number of councillors happens to take the bulk of the burden of the new plan. Baldock is without doubt the worst place you could choose to add houses to, some key points:

- Baldock has the shortest train platforms of all of the towns in the area, it also has inadequate parking and no lifts

- In addition Great Northern are proposing to CUT the train services to Baldock, a town you are expecting to double in size. In short Baldock is barely able to cope with the number of commuters in the area as it is.

- Having recently moved to the Baldock, I'm already disgusted at the NHS provision vs that I have experienced elsewhere. Getting a Drs appointment here takes upwards of two weeks, we cannot handle the inflow of new people. Equally the school here is already over subscribed.

- BA3 is also one of the few nice views of countryside available from Baldock. Building here would be a devastating blow to the beauty of the town and would forever change its character. In contrast the large site to the North is an area much less visited - if you must build it would be far more sensible to build here.

- The A1 connections at Baldock are insufficient - there is already extensive queuing at the cross roads near the station and on the road from Clothall to Tesco (another reason not to build at BA3, it requires a drive through town to reach the A1). Site BA1 makes more sense given connections to both the station and the A1.

- To be clear, I'd prefer building at site BA1 to site BA3 (the other sites on the plan are small and incidental which is why I'm highlighting these two) but this does not represent an endorsement for site BA1 - I find the whole plan to be ill thought through as Baldock infrastructure cannot cope.

- As a slight aside please resurface some roads! Everyone round here is terrified for their house values as it is with you building all the new houses. Its doesn't help that the new devlopments are pristine whereas the older streets have roads the resemble dirt tracks.

In summary, I find your plan utterly bonkers! Building 2800 houses in a town this small with an already strained infrastructure is amongst the most ridiculous and harmful proposals I've ever seen suggested. I know that the local community has already been vocal and you have done your level best to ignore them so I doubt my writing in will have any effect, but please register my feedback as disapproval in the strongest possible terms.

Please see below for some feedback. Call me a sceptic but it seems utterly morally reprehensible that the town with the lowest number of councillors happens to take the bulk of the burden of the new plan. Baldock is without doubt the worst place you could choose to add houses to, some key points:

- Baldock has the shortest train platforms of all of the towns in the area, it also has inadequate parking and no lifts

- In addition Great Northern are proposing to CUT the train services to Baldock, a town you are expecting to double in size. In short Baldock is barely able to cope with the number of commuters in the area as it is.

- Having recently moved to the Baldock, I'm already disgusted at the NHS provision vs that I have experienced elsewhere. Getting a Drs appointment here takes upwards of two weeks, we cannot handle the inflow of new people. Equally the school here is already over subscribed.

- BA3 is also one of the few nice views of countryside available from Baldock. Building here would be a devastating blow to the beauty of the town and would forever change its character. In contrast the large site to the North is an area much less visited - if you must build it would be far more sensible to build here.

- The A1 connections at Baldock are insufficient - there is already extensive queuing at the cross roads near the station and on the road from Clothall to Tesco (another reason not to build at BA3, it requires a drive through town to reach the A1). Site BA1 makes more sense given connections to both the station and the A1.

- To be clear, I'd prefer building at site BA1 to site BA3 (the other sites on the plan are small and incidental which is why I'm highlighting these two) but this does not represent an endorsement for site BA1 - I find the whole plan to be ill thought through as Baldock infrastructure cannot cope.

- As a slight aside please resurface some roads! Everyone round here is terrified for their house values as it is with you building all the new houses. Its doesn't help that the new devlopments are pristine whereas the older streets have roads the resemble dirt tracks.

In summary, I find your plan utterly bonkers! Building 2800 houses in a town this small with an already strained infrastructure is amongst the most ridiculous and harmful proposals I've ever seen suggested. I know that the local community has already been vocal and you have done your level best to ignore them so I doubt my writing in will have any effect, but please register my feedback as disapproval in the strongest possible terms.