The Cala Homes Development – UPDATE 21st November 2022
Decision date committee meeting is Monday 28th November – Please attend the meeting!
The meeting will be held at the COUNCIL CHAMBER – COUNCIL OFFICES (next to Alban Arena).
The case officer posted his report and recommendation to the portal on Friday. Inexplicably he is recommending that the application be GRANTED!
The case officer’s full report is available here:
Case Officer’s Report
This report will be circulated to the committee of councillors, who will meet on Monday 28th November at the Civic Offices to decide whether to accept the officer’s recommendation or whether to oppose it and refuse the application.
It is therefore absolutely crucial that the maximum number of Chiswell Green residents attend this committee meeting to show councillors the depth of local opposition.
This could literally be our last opportunity to stop this application, so if you don’t want this massive development to go ahead, your attendance is absolutely vital!
Our planning consultant will be making his 3 minute speech on behalf of KCG and the local community, 1 local councillor and 1 parish councillor will speak for 5 minutes each. The developer will also be allowed to speak for 5 minutes.
A good turnout will show the planning committee the strength of feeling in the local community towards this application, and they cannot ignore that. A large turnout is known to have an impact on the decision, so please do attend if you are able to.
We hope to see you there!
Add the CALA Decision Meeting to your calendar






The Cala Homes Development – UPDATE 11th November 2022
Decision date committee meeting is Monday 28th November – Please attend the meeting!
The meeting will be held at the COUNCIL CHAMBER – COUNCIL OFFICES (next to Alban Arena).
The case officer has not yet made his recoomendation.
Members of the public are permitted to attend in person (as spectators), so it would be great to have a significant number of residents of Chiswell Green present to demonstrate the strength of opposition to this development.
We had a great turnout for the Polo Fields decision meeting – but it would be fantastic to have a much larger number of residents at this meeting regarding CALA
The CALA Homes Development – UPDATE 9th October 2022
National Highways have removed their hold on the application decision.
Re-consultation on this application is still open, existing comments will still be taken into consideration – and any new comments must be submitted by 22nd October.
The CALA Homes Development – UPDATE 22nd September 2022
Re-consultation on this application is now open, existing comments will still be taken into consideration – and any new comments must be submitted by 22nd October.
New documents have been submitted by the applicant relating to
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- road changes to Chiswell Green Lane, Watford Road and Stanley Avenue
- ecology
- drainage
Please do view the documents and submit any new objections before the closing date.
Click the link below to view the application on the planning website:
Planning Application 5/2022/0927
The CALA Homes Development – UPDATE 20th September 2022
The Case Officer has now stated that the application will go to “re-consultation” due to new documents submitted by the applicant.
We will let you know more about dates as and when we find out.
The CALA Homes Development – UPDATE 5th June 2022
National Highways put a hold on the application decision to allow more time for them to assess the impact.
New decision date is 14th December 2022
In their response to the application they stated:
“National Highways has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Transport as a
strategic highway company under the provisions of the Infrastructure Act 2015 and is
the highway authority, traffic authority and street authority for the Strategic Road
Network (SRN). The SRN is a critical national asset and as such we work to ensure that
it operates and is managed in the public interest, both in respect of current activities
and needs as well as in providing effective stewardship of its long-term operation
and integrity.
This response represents our formal recommendation with regard to planning
application 5/2022/0927 and has been prepared by Jen Searle, Spatial Planner for
National Highways.
National Highways requires more time to review information from Hertfordshire council.
Considering the above, National Highways recommends that planning permission not
be granted for a further period of three months, from the date of this notice, to allow the
applicant time to submit additional supporting information. ”
Click the link below to view the application on the planning website where you can still upload an objection:
Planning Application 5/2022/0927
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