Local Urbanisation? There are several planning applications either open for comment or under appeal in the area between Wendover and Aylesbury: • 16/01017/AOP for up to 175 houses on World's End Lane/Halton Lane is awaiting the outcome of an appeal, which was lodged 31 October 2016. The latest document to be added to the appeal (16 January 2017) is a collection of letters and photographs from interested parties in the Wendover/Halton/Weston Turville area, all of whom objected to the development. • 16/03548/APP for 26 houses on land to the southeast of the Marroway roundabout in Weston Turville is awaiting a decision. The land is for sale, with the potential for residential housing (subject to the outcome of the planning application). Tenders for this property closed 22 February 2017. • 16/04238/AOP for 375 houses to the west of Wendover Road at the Marroway roundabout in Stoke Mandeville is now awaiting a decision. All these proposed developments are likely
to affect access to facilities locally and further afield due to increased traffic and added pressure on infrastructure already creaking under the strain of current loads. ...and in Hertfordshire Three large areas of Green Belt could be lost this year to housing development around Hemel Hempstead and Tring if current plans are approved.
The Government continues to insist the Green Belt is safe in its hands. Yet the reality is many local authorities are steadily whittling it away as they try and cope with the Government’s unrealistic method of calculating future housing demand. The method for estimating future housing is clumsy and flawed. It needs to focus on realistic local requirements, including housing, business and infrastructure and not simply be a response to a blanket Government formula.’"
Dacorum Borough Council wants to bring forward proposals to build 1,500 houses in what many consider a knee-jerk reaction to The Chiltern Society is the largest conservation charity in the Chilterns with over 7000 members perceived housing demand in the area. and 500 volunteers. It has launched a planning Chiltern Society trustee Paul Mason says, campaign highlighting the unprecedented "Green Belt is, of course, supposed to be threat to the Chilterns from development and protected and developed only in exceptional suggesting ideas to ease the pressure. Society circumstances. Yet this latest move is unlikely Chairman David Harris said: “We oppose new to be the end of the Green Belt land grab. development in existing Green Belt which fails Dacorum and neighbouring Hertfordshire to protect its openness, or undermines its local authorities are planning to review purposes, including the unrestricted sprawl of Green Belt as part of a wholesale review of large built-up areas and neighbouring towns merging into one another.” their Local Plan.
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