Land on the North Side of Friendless Lane, Flamstead

Planning application no. 26/01944/FUL

Change of use of agricultural land to form 8 residential Gypsy and Traveller pitches, each pitch to provide 1x mobile home, 2x touring caravans, 1x amenity block, 1x storage shed with associated groundworks, hardstanding, boundary treatment and landscaping.

The proposed development site is within the Chilterns National Landscape and also within the Green Belt. As justification for the proposal, the application argues the site is ‘grey belt’. This assertion is completely inappropriate for an unsustainable proposed development on a site which benefits from a level of protection in excess of that offered by the Green Belt. We wholeheartedly support the immediate enforcement actions of Dacorum Borough Council with respect to the unauthorised activities that have taken place on the site. The egregious flouting of planning requirements demonstrated by the Applicants is to be deplored and we urge the Council to refuse permission for this hugely damaging application. (Note – CPRE Hertfordshire objected to a similar previous application reference 26/00811/MFA which was withdrawn by virtue of Decision Notice dated 10th September 2026.)

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