Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I'd like my concern to be noted regarding the proposed development of Breachwood Green.
I am nowhere near satisfied that there are no brownfield sites available to meet the required housing obligations that the council has. You as a council are totally obliged to be developing these sites as priority over destroying the country's green land. Brownfield sites already have the infrastructure to take the extra residents and their vehicles along with the already present public transport provisions that are just not available in a village such as Breachwood Green. If the council COULD prove to residents that allotment land had to be lost FOREVER, then there are far more suitable sites to lose rather than peoples valued community assets and all the wildlife in them which we adore.

To use such sites is lazy and obtuse planning. Development of land, such as what is available in other areas of the county, would show more thoughtful and considerate planning. There are many sites with only agricultural land by them on roads that are wide enough to take the traffic and that are leading directly to motorways and towns such as Harpenden; why would you clog our village up with more speeding traffic and take away our allotments both at the same time when less sensitive sites are around?

Millions of pounds are spent in the south of England creating green spaces and giving residents sanctuary and somewhere to plant and cultivate. North Herts Council thinks it is okay to spend their money in taking these spaces away from us; an irony that is sickening local people.

The council is doing nothing to show integrity here.