Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Transport : Codicote Road has become more congested over the years due to the amount of traffic and problems with A1M motorway ie not being widened, the motorway issue needs to be addressed first before housing can be identified. Codicote also has an issue with the quarry that have lorries running through the village, I counted 15 in half an hour outside the local shop at lunchtime. It is therefore not correct to say that there is congestion at the start and end of the working day, congestion happens throughout the day in the village.

Healthcare: The GP surgeries that serve Codicote are woefully inadequate and the East and North Herts clinical commissioning group need to be engaged with a view to see how this issue can be addressed.

Power supply: We have lived in our house over 25 years and in the past 10 years we have had more and more frequent power outages, this implies that there are problems with adequate electricity supply, I do not see anywhere in this plan that this has been addressed.

Housing: This is a local plan and I see nothing in this for locals. My first house was a new house in Codicote that was subsidised by the County Council so that we could afford to live here, due to the fact that my husband had lived in Codicote most of his life. I appreciate that new housing is a necessary part of living in such a sought after area, but it is an important part of a growing and sustainable community to provide housing for local Codicote people.

Greenbelt: Save Rural Hertfordshire
People live in a village as it is surrounded by countryside a lot of which is green belt, so you assume is protected. This is obviously not the case in your draft local plan.

I would like to see these issues addressed in the local plan.