Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

Please let me be counted as I wish to change the Local Plan and participate in the Examination as I strongly object to the NHDC Local Plan 2011-2031.

We are at Saturation point, please stop building in North Herts NOW!
We rely on nature, but we are making it impossible for wildlife to survive. Bees are essential to us having food, but they need space to live, we are killing their habitat, their food source and them!

First and foremost, the infrastructure and transportation networks are inadequately addressed in the parts of the plan relating sites East of Luton, to meet Luton's Unmet Housing Need East of Luton. The Transport Assessments were not robust and the data was inadequate and inaccurate; they did not include impacts of all new developments in the vicinity and they were not carried out for long enough. Some studies from Luton Borough Council assumed roads that did not even exist.
Currently, traffic congestion in Wigmore is already close to unacceptable levels; both LBC and NHDC have noted concerns over lack of necessary infrastructure and inadequate road networks due to the already existent congestion.
I also object that there is no justifiable need to declassify Land East of Luton from the Green Belt. There are many viable alternatives, so the Local Plan is not in accordance with the National Framework Planning Policy since it is not "absolutely necessary." I wish to change this plan. I want to participate in the Examination.
Building 2,105 upwards houses will lead to unacceptable problematic congestion consequences for this area, especially in the light of the airport's vast expansion which planned simultaneously for this side of town. This will impact all of Luton; Wigmore, Stopsley, Eaton Green, and even Round Green, Stockingstone Road, and even the over-stretched Luton and Dunstable Hospital!
Air quality and pollution has not been assessed in the residential areas around the airport and there has been no mitigating solutions to the air and noise pollution that will be generated from the extra cars, or the airport expansion in this area.
Wigmore currently consists of about 4,500 houses, so this proposal is an unacceptably disproportionate level of expansion - nearly 50%.

Cockernhoe Village will no longer even exist. It would destroy an entire rural community and displace a village. It would change the character of the area to an unacceptable degree. If you consider that Cockernhoe is 50 houses, the expansion threat is a huge 4,200%, which is unacceptable and totally disproportionate.
Logic would dictate that all other infrastructure must also be matched by an expansion of 50 per cent too - so half of every public service available in Wigmore, ranging from shops and retail outlets, (we have one overstretched supermarket as it is), car parks, secondary and primary schools, petrol stations, policing services, fire services, health services, dental services must all be also expanded to that same degree. Where will the money for all this come from as the developers won't be putting these services in place.
The unmet housing need figure also shows inaccuracies. During Executive Meetings LBC stated the need for a collaboration between neighbouring councils to commission another Strategic Housing Management Assessment to re-examine once more the Unmet Housing Need figure assumptions, due to their estimated nature but far-reaching consequences and drastic impact upon the area. I understand there are more appropriate brown fill sites that can be built upon that would be better suited than stripping away green belt land.

Whitwell is a Village. It has No amenities, apart from one post office/shop. To build homes in Whitwell is madness.

Object to Chapter 4 SP8:
This plan is mad as it proposes many houses for a totally unsuitable site.

Object to Chapter 4 SP2:
The Village will no longer be a Village with the proposed extra houses. Whitwell has already absorbed a huge amount of housing development , with houses being built up Horn hill, all over the once were Allotments, and out on the Lilley bottom road before the Cress beds. The congestion on the small roads is hideous, with the high street of Whitwell being impassable and dangerous to any local resident trying to get out of their front door. This traffic congestion then continues down onto Codicote high street through to the A1 and Welwyn garden City, along Whitwell road to Hitchin and out on the Lilley bottom road towards Luton. The quality of life in Whitwell can only deteriorate with more houses and the inevitable addition of many more cars. There is no work immediately around Whitwell so everyone will drive out towards the A1, Luton or the Railway stations at Stevenage or Hitchin.

Object to Chapter 13, SP2:
This sight is not acceptable due to a high risk of flooding. The more we build over countryside, the risk of flooding multiplies.

Personal objection;
We need green space and places for wildlife. Without bees and other pollinators we are all dead. DO NOT BUILD ON GREEN FIELD SITES.

Whitwell is a Village. It has No amenities, apart from one post office/shop. To build homes in Whitwell is madness.

Object to Chapter 4 SP8:
This plan is mad as it proposes many houses for a totally unsuitable site.

Object to Chapter 4 SP2:
The Village will no longer be a Village with the proposed extra houses. Whitwell has already absorbed a huge amount of housing development , with houses being built up Horn hill, all over the once were Allotments, and out on the Lilley bottom road before the Cress beds. The congestion on the small roads is hideous, with the high street of Whitwell being impassable and dangerous to any local resident trying to get out of their front door. This traffic congestion then continues down onto Codicote high street through to the A1 and Welwyn garden City, along Whitwell road to Hitchin and out on the Lilley bottom road towards Luton. The quality of life in Whitwell can only deteriorate with more houses and the inevitable addition of many more cars. There is no work immediately around Whitwell so everyone will drive out towards the A1, Luton or the Railway stations at Stevenage or Hitchin.

Object to Chapter 13, SP2:
This sight is not acceptable due to a high risk of flooding. The more we build over countryside, the risk of flooding multiplies.

Personal objection;
We need green space and places for wildlife. Without bees and other pollinators we are all dead. DO NOT BUILD ON GREEN FIELD SITES.

Whitwell is a Village. It has No amenities, apart from one post office/shop. To build homes in Whitwell is madness.

Object to Chapter 4 SP8:
This plan is mad as it proposes many houses for a totally unsuitable site.

Object to Chapter 4 SP2:
The Village will no longer be a Village with the proposed extra houses. Whitwell has already absorbed a huge amount of housing development , with houses being built up Horn hill, all over the once were Allotments, and out on the Lilley bottom road before the Cress beds. The congestion on the small roads is hideous, with the high street of Whitwell being impassable and dangerous to any local resident trying to get out of their front door. This traffic congestion then continues down onto Codicote high street through to the A1 and Welwyn garden City, along Whitwell road to Hitchin and out on the Lilley bottom road towards Luton. The quality of life in Whitwell can only deteriorate with more houses and the inevitable addition of many more cars. There is no work immediately around Whitwell so everyone will drive out towards the A1, Luton or the Railway stations at Stevenage or Hitchin.

Object to Chapter 13, SP2:
This sight is not acceptable due to a high risk of flooding. The more we build over countryside, the risk of flooding multiplies.

Personal objection;
We need green space and places for wildlife. Without bees and other pollinators we are all dead. DO NOT BUILD ON GREEN FIELD SITES.

Please let me be counted as I wish to change the Local Plan and participate in the Examination as I strongly object to the NHDC Local Plan 2011-2031.

We are at Saturation point, please stop building in North Herts NOW!
We rely on nature, but we are making it impossible for wildlife to survive. Bees are essential to us having food, but they need space to live, we are killing their habitat, their food source and them!

First and foremost, the infrastructure and transportation networks are inadequately addressed in the parts of the plan relating sites East of Luton, to meet Luton's Unmet Housing Need East of Luton. The Transport Assessments were not robust and the data was inadequate and inaccurate; they did not include impacts of all new developments in the vicinity and they were not carried out for long enough. Some studies from Luton Borough Council assumed roads that did not even exist.
Currently, traffic congestion in Wigmore is already close to unacceptable levels; both LBC and NHDC have noted concerns over lack of necessary infrastructure and inadequate road networks due to the already existent congestion.
I also object that there is no justifiable need to declassify Land East of Luton from the Green Belt. There are many viable alternatives, so the Local Plan is not in accordance with the National Framework Planning Policy since it is not "absolutely necessary." I wish to change this plan. I want to participate in the Examination.
Building 2,105 upwards houses will lead to unacceptable problematic congestion consequences for this area, especially in the light of the airport's vast expansion which planned simultaneously for this side of town. This will impact all of Luton; Wigmore, Stopsley, Eaton Green, and even Round Green, Stockingstone Road, and even the over-stretched Luton and Dunstable Hospital!
Air quality and pollution has not been assessed in the residential areas around the airport and there has been no mitigating solutions to the air and noise pollution that will be generated from the extra cars, or the airport expansion in this area.
Wigmore currently consists of about 4,500 houses, so this proposal is an unacceptably disproportionate level of expansion - nearly 50%.

Cockernhoe Village will no longer even exist. It would destroy an entire rural community and displace a village. It would change the character of the area to an unacceptable degree. If you consider that Cockernhoe is 50 houses, the expansion threat is a huge 4,200%, which is unacceptable and totally disproportionate.
Logic would dictate that all other infrastructure must also be matched by an expansion of 50 per cent too - so half of every public service available in Wigmore, ranging from shops and retail outlets, (we have one overstretched supermarket as it is), car parks, secondary and primary schools, petrol stations, policing services, fire services, health services, dental services must all be also expanded to that same degree. Where will the money for all this come from as the developers won't be putting these services in place.
The unmet housing need figure also shows inaccuracies. During Executive Meetings LBC stated the need for a collaboration between neighbouring councils to commission another Strategic Housing Management Assessment to re-examine once more the Unmet Housing Need figure assumptions, due to their estimated nature but far-reaching consequences and drastic impact upon the area. I understand there are more appropriate brown fill sites that can be built upon that would be better suited than stripping away green belt land.