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Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft
Policy SP14: Site BA1 - North of Baldock
Representation ID: 1390
Received: 29/11/2016
Respondent: Mr N S Welch
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? Yes
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Development is on green belt which goes against policy on 2 points. Preserving, setting and character of historic towns and joining of neighbouring settlements.
Even with distribution road there will be an increase of traffic through Baldock to get to Letchworth and Hitchin.
Development is on greenbelt which was introduced to preserve the setting and character of historic towns such as Baldock, also to prevent neighbouring settlements from merging, Baldock would be joined to Bygrave.
With this development there would be a minimum of 3,000 extra vehicles in the area even with the distribution road a large proportion still would go through Baldock to get to Letchworth and Hitchin adding to already congested road networks.
The distribution road would become a shortcut from the A1 to the A505 and as the road is a single carriageway this too would become congested.
