Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I object to building plans to the East of Luton.

The Government's criteria say Luton's unmet needs do not warrant removing green belt status from the area as they are not an exceptional circumstance

If the area becomes unprotected we know that every square metre of it will be built on creating a suburban sprawl

Luton already has enough brownfield sites to accommodate all of its unmet housing needs and the town really needs more housing and development to bring it back from a fragmenting community. Allowing building on the green belt will make it much less likely that developers will make the effort to build in the town. We know that because many brown sites are already available and there are few developers interested. Perhaps because its not as profitable as green belt developments.

The green belt development would dump much more traffic into already congested roads in East Luton. There is some talk of a possible link road, but that doesn't exist, doesn't have planning permission and quite possibly will never be built

Building 2000 or more homes around the current 200 or so already established there is disproportionate and will create a vast out of town estate over them.

It is not reasonable to put 14% of the NHDC total allocation in this one vast sprawl.