Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I'd like to object to site WE1's inclusion in the plan on the following basis:
The development of WE1 will likely result in a dramatic increase in traffic through the village. The road through the village is the easiest route through to Stevenage and is already used extensively as a "rat run". This will only increase by adding approximately 47 families and 95 cars to the population of Weston.

The land being officially removed from the Green Belt to enable the development of WE1 sets a dangerous precedent for further development around Weston in the future and compromises the village's role (as recognized in the Green belt Survey Published in 2016, P.23-24) in preventing encroachment of development into open countryside.

Additionally, local residents have spotted slow worms on the site which have protected status. I have attached photographic evidence taken on site.