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This 3.4 mile circular walk takes in some of the rolling open countryside and woodland in the middle of the county. The walk is centred on rural Symondshyde for which the submitted Welwyn Hatfield District Local Plan proposes a new settlement of 1130 homes. The local campaign group Save Symondshyde and CPRE Herts continue to campaign against this damaging proposal, which would remove a swathe of rural countryside from the Green Belt. The walk starts and finishes in Coleman Green, southeast of Wheathampstead.
Significant planning application October 2018 CPRE Herts comments
Written by Paul Munns
Our October walk is at Bygrave Common in North Hertfordshire, to the northeast of Baldock. The walk is easily accessible by public transport as it starts and finishes at Baldock railway station. Bygrave Common is an area of the Green Belt for which the submitted North Hertfordshire Local Plan proposes 2,800 new homes along with a retail centre, school, doctors surgery and other infrastructure. If developed, it would destroy the landscape and its wildlife habitats, remove high grade agricultural land from production, cause coalescence of Lower Bygrave with Baldock, and nearly double the physical footprint of Baldock.
Significant planning application September 2018 CPRE Herts comments
Written by Paul Munns
Our September walk of just under 6 miles explores Green Belt countryside in North Hertfordshire District to the east of Luton. The walk described starts and finishes in Breachwood Green, goes north-east through King’s Walden to reach Ley Green, then heads south-west to Tea Green, on the edge of the area proposed for housing.
Significant planning application August 2018 CPRE Herts comments
Written by Paul Munns
Our August Walk of the Month is a 4.5 mile out-and-back linear walk on the middle portion of The Nickey Line, starting and finishing in Redbourn and taking in some of the northern part of the "East Hemel" Green Belt area threatened with development.
