Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

No mixed use proposed.

Knebworth facilities and employment needs to evolve. Current amenity facilities are lacking and it is a missed opportunity to not enhance and add to become an active and vibrant village centre.

Housing for housing sake is not a planning policy.

Removal of green belt buffer to the village of Knebworth

Increased noise and pollution from A1(M)

Traffic congestion through narrow railway bridges and impact to wider traffic congestion in and around the village

Viability of the land given flooding issues associated with large areas of proposed land.

Housing for housing sake is not planning policy. Incremental additional housing is not fulfilling the amenity needs and joined up thinking needed to provide long term sustainable development. The proposals are simply box ticking to hit housing targets having no regard for the wider implications and planning needs or support.

Housing for housing sake is not planning policy. Incremental additional housing is not fulfilling the amenity needs and joined up thinking needed to provide long term sustainable development. The proposals are simply box ticking to hit housing targets having no regard for the wider implications and planning needs or support.

Housing for housing sake is not planning policy it is a meeting of targets rather than joined up thinking.

Knebworth boundary should be respected rather than merging further towards Stevenage and the loss of Agricultural and green belt land should be avoided.

Surface water and drainage is problematic and therefore development is likely to be less viable.

There is a lack of coherent strategy for Knebworth. Proposed planning policy is not effective. There is no connection between housing, cumulative development and infrastructure and facilities required to support the proposed development.

The housing development is housing for housing sake and is not a co-ordinated plan to provide sustainable planning policy for the health and vibrancy of the village of Knebworth.

Road networks, schooling, retail and leisure facilities are not considered. Narrow bridges, bottlenecks for traffic and resultant congestion causes danger to life - the inability of emergency vehicles currently represents a real life danger and increased housing and lack of infrastructure would further compound this genuine risk.

Planning policy should be welcomed and provide a vision for the local area and for Knebworth. The vision lacks foresight eating into green belt and agricultural land to provide housing but little else.