Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I can totally see why you want to build houses in Baldock, but please hear me out before you make rash decisions that will last forever.
As I said before, I can see why you want to build-More people are wanting to buy affordable and pleasant places to live. However there's starting to be too many people who are wanting to do this in England, where this is becoming rarer and harder to do, and it's the simple fact of there just isn't enough space so we've had to build more and more until we're now pushing it to the limit-building on greenbelt and changing the rules so we can.
My proposition to solve this is to build apartments; Places where we can still call home, have a pleasant place to live, and that is affordable! And, that way we can still offer work to builders, architects and hundreds of more other people! At the same time using so much less space-therefore clogging up the world dramatically less, also letting farmers be able to still produce locally!

Talking about clogging up the space we've been given the responsibility and honour to look after, it's not just people we're affecting, it's also nature; a rare species of bird, called "Corn bunting" is really endangered. Worser yet, it lives where we're planning on building all these thousands of houses. It has a puny amount of alternative places to escape to.
On the other hand, as you've pointed out, more people coming here could benefit the town. And I've thought long and hard about that and the trouble is, Baldock wasn't designed to have thousands of houses added to it, and I'm not sure how it could cope. Take North road for example, it can't be expanded and it would desperately need to be if this idea was carried out, the traffic would be impossible. Or schools, 3000+ of new homes would definitely bring families, with kids who needed to attend a local school, however our local schools won't be able to cope with this number, yet no one is very enthusiastic with the idea of new schools-which I can also understand; It will cost money we don't want to have to spend. If the housing was more evenly distributed we wouldn't have this problem though.
Getting rid of too many farms isn't wise either-If there's another war in England at any time and we have to depend on local farming, there's not going to be any to depend on! I walk my dogs daily in the fields with my family, and I couldn't imagine not having it there-how tragic would it be for someone to grow up and never run till you've reached the top of the hill and are fully out of breath, or climb to the highest hay bale at harvest time, dance in the rain and get muddy from head to foot, go for spontaneous picnics, sledge down hills or just go on a dog walk to clear the cobwebs out in your brain.
I know we have to build more places for people to live in but, Please, please, PLEASE let us try and make the smallest damage we can, and Plleeaaassee , let us leave greenbelt to be, it's purpose was to be enjoyed by the community, not get ruined with concrete, bricks and cars.
Thank you SO much for using your time to read this and Please, take caution and re-think it through-When greenbelt, or any land, is gone, it's gone forever.