Land East of Hemel Hempstead, South of B487 and North of A4147

Planning application no. 25/02916/MOA

Outline application for: urban extension comprising two new neighbourhoods and a new employment zone. The development to include new dwellings (including affordable housing and specialist accommodation for older people); new employment and industrial floorspace and ancillary facilities, a sports hub and Sports Pitches; green infrastructure and landscaping works (to include a country park, formal and informal open space, amenity space, Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace, managed woodland, ecological areas); early years, nursery, primary and secondary education facilities; local centre uses (to include retail, community and employment uses; health and fitness, gym and other cultural and recreational uses; medical centre; transport mobility hubs; drainage works (including foul and surface water drainage infrastructure); ancillary infrastructure works; vehicular and active travel infrastructure; improvements to the Nickey Line and delivery of a proportion of the Hemel Garden Communities Green Loop; land for Gypsy and Traveller pitches; provision of an active travel bridge over the A414; safeguarded land for M1 Junction 8 improvements; ground remodelling, acoustic bund, engineering and demolition works. All matters reserved save for access from the A414/Green Lane junction and access from the B487/ Hemel Hempstead Road (Redbourn Road)

This is the first major application relating to the joint Councils’ (St Albans City and District Council, Dacorum Borough Council) project for Hemel Garden Communities (HGC). We submit comments regarding:

• Institutional responsibility,
• the Requirement for a Vision,
• the Green Belt and the Chilterns National Landscape,
• Infrastructure provision including water supply and waste water,
• Highways considerations, and
• the proposed Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space (SANG).

Read our full comments using the download button. (NOTE – we have submitted the same comments to both St Albans City and District Council and to Dacorum Borough Council).

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