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Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft
SP2 Land beween Horn Hill and Bendish Lane, Whitwell
Representation ID: 3135
Received: 27/11/2016
Respondent: Dr Verity Liddell
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Object to SP2:
- Isolated village, poor public transport
- Scale of development
- Highway infrastructure and congestion
- Local employment
- Education facilities
- Small country roads
- Whitwell should be a category B village
I am writing to object to the local plan for Whitwell that designates it a category A village.
Whitwell is an isolated village with very poor public transport and no plans for any improvement or increase in such.
A large increase in new residents as allowed for in the plan (SP2 site between Bendish lane and Horn Hill) will incur a dramatic increase in traffic, as it is not possible to commute to areas of local employment or hub railway or bus stations
(eg Luton, Harpenden, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City) at all by public transport and there is a very limited service(every 2 hours) to St Albans and Hitchin.
This similarly effects secondary school aged children and will be compounded in the future by the County Councils plans to remove school buses or make the places prohibitively expensive.
The surrounding lanes are narrow and in some places single track.
In addition I am not aware of any evidence to show demand for the size of development that the plan encourages.
Whitwell should be a category B village.
