Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I am objecting to the above proposed development. The site must be one of the most unsuitable for development due to traffic issues, flooding, destroying countryside within the Green Belt and also the fact that it will shrink the ever narrowing gap between Hitchin and Ickleford. Ickleford has been designated to take considerably more than its fair shares of additional dwellings without any improvement in infrastructure. The roads are already congested for parts of the day now.

If it is really necessary to build these extra homes (and bear in mind that our leaving the EU is very likely to reduce this demand) then the Burford Grange development is the last place that should be considered.

I am objecting to the above proposed development. The site must be one of the most unsuitable for development due to traffic issues, flooding, destroying countryside within the Green Belt and also the fact that it will shrink the ever narrowing gap between Hitchin and Ickleford. Ickleford has been designated to take considerably more than its fair shares of additional dwellings without any improvement in infrastructure. The roads are already congested for parts of the day now.

If it is really necessary to build these extra homes (and bear in mind that our leaving the EU is very likely to reduce this demand) then the Burford Grange development is the last place that should be considered.