Land at Woodside Road, Abbots Langley

Planning application no. 25/0896/FUL

Construction of 192 no. dwellings (Use Class C3), public open space, landscaping, new vehicular access and pedestrian accesses and associated infrastructure.

The Applicant’s Planning Statement seeks to justify this proposed development in the Green Belt both on the basis of very special circumstances relating to the lack of housing land supply in the emerging Local Plan and the introduction of the concept of ‘grey belt’. We disagree. It is also not appropriate in our view for such a significant allocation in the Green Belt to be determined outside the Local Plan process which is ongoing. The Green Belt in southwest Hertfordshire is under continuous and unrelenting pressure for development which is jeopardising the highly valued benefits which protection brings. Its continual reduction through consents for speculative development is in danger of bringing the planning system into disrepute and we urge the Council to refuse permission for this inappropriate development.

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