Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

The idea that this plan is going to work out and not cause any major problems is ridiculous, I can, definitely, understand why we need to build more houses but please, let us think this through logically and very, very carefully before we make these major decisions that will affect our town permanently.

Before I wrote this I kept thinking, "There must be another way we can solve this" and, although at first this seemed virtually impossible, I'm beginning to see how we can overcome these challengers we've been faced with. Obviously, we have to build more places where people can live, however we have to find the balance between, building more homes so we all can live in a comfortable place we can call home, or, from North to the South of England becoming a never ending mass of concrete, roads, and tar.-We Can't let that happen.
One way to try and lessen the damage is building apartments - Places we can still love as a home, that's an achievable goal for a price affordability, And clogs up our country drastically less.
It's us who have been given the honor of looking after Baldock, and with that title also comes with the responsibility to look after everything in it. Including the nature that lives here, take the "Corn bunting" for example, it's a rare species of bird that lives on our greenbelt we are planning building on-It's terribly endangered and is on the red list. It would have a pathetic chance of surviving if we were to bulldoze it's home. We can't be selfish with this and only think of ourselves benefiting with this endeavor.

Also, in some ways, we would not benefit from this plan-Greenbelt has been preserved for a reason, it's part of the community. It holds water-preventing flooding, catches carbon, Having a countryside everyone can explore and cherish. Furthermore, most of green belt - about two-thirds - is in agricultural use. This cannot be considered of low environmental value when global population growth and climate change are putting increasing pressure on the land we farm, and when we grow less than two-thirds of our own food, now, more than ever, we need to avoid unnecessarily losing our countryside.
Instead, We should, look for more brown fields or derelict buildings to tackle the housing crisis in Britain-more than seven million pounds of taxpayers money has been spent securing and maintaining empty buildings in Hertfordshire alone, that's a lot of money, and space, we could have saved.

Thank you SO, so much for using your time to read this, We have to build houses, that's a fact. But PLEASE, let us tread carefully, and not steal greenbelt away from future generations.