Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I strongly object to the proposed site for 73 houses to be built literally on our doorstep. Our home overlooks open fields (the proposed site)and we have already seen a vast increase in traffic and pollution from the High Street on the other side and this development will leave us living virtually on a roundabout. Clearly this will devalue our property. Codicote High St will be unable to support the increase in vehicles from this and other proposed developments. Yesterday it took me 35minutes to drive from Cowards Lane to the A1. The plan is unsound, affecting the environment, character and wildlife of the village. Access to healthcare is already under pressure, trying to book an urgent doctor's appointment is virtually impossible [...] Parking also is already a real issue with cars, vans and lorries parking on the High St causing turning out of Cowards Lane to be extremely dangerous, especially as through traffic increases speed just at that point. There is no secondary school in Codicote and places for chosen schools are already under pressure (we had no choice but to send our own children in different directions-Welwyn Garden and Hitchin- as even after two appeals we were unable to secure them places in the same town.