Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

One of the reasons that I believe that this plan has not been thought through thoroughly is that there is extremely limited parking in the railway station and in the roads nearby, with many of the roads full with not only the residents parking, but the many commuters. On the developers layout they plan to make Bygrave and Salisbury road two of the 3 roads out of the new development. Obviously the developers haven't actually seen the roads in person as especially Salisbury road is a very narrow road, which wouldn't be suitable for a further 2,800 Residents. This problem wouldn't be solved by putting in double yellow lines as this would make the parking problem even more worse than it is already and unless they widen the road, which will be very near impossible as the only way that they will be able to do that would be taking away the path. Also North road is already extremely busy, not only in the rush hours, but throughout the day, it rarely takes less than 15 minutes to get from Salisbury road to the traffic lights which is a mere 3 minute walk. This road will definitely not be able to cope with the increased traffic of at least 5000 cars on the road on a daily basis and resulting in a nightmare to use in all times of the day.
They should consider building a different route and not connecting it on to existing ones which aren't able to cope with the higher numbers of users. They could build a connecting road onto A505 from the North of Baldock, this will help to reduce the stress on the already stressed and overused roads.
Another point that I have to make which is similar to my previous point is that the infrastructure of the town is not designed for the proposed increased of the population on top of the present. Thus the services such as the doctors surgeries, are is already overrun - to make an appointment is usually a 2 week wait at least. The same problem is with the schools, for example Hartsfield has been oversubscribed for the last 4 years, if the development did take place this would put a huge amount of pressure on the 3 primary schools and only 1 high school. Especially as they plan to only build extra services once the houses have been built, by this time people will be moving in and their children will be needing to attend a school.
I want to know why Baldock is being forced to expand by 80%, almost doubling the size of it, while the other larger towns are only needing to expand by 10%. These larger towns will have the amenities to be able to cope with increased size of the population. They should have the roads and infrastructure to be able to withstand the higher pressures.
I hope that you consider my thoughts and ideas and take this into account when you are planning our future of our town.
Thank you for your time and please don't make any rash decisions.