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• The existing bus route through Chiswell Green is too far from the new development to encourage the new residents to use it

• Adding nearly 1,000 new residents to a village of 2,800 is ridiculous. We will become a town overnight and lose our village character

• Chiswell Green is a village, with specific charm and character, which for many is the reason for living here. This development will harm and completely change that character irreparably

• The Green Belt serves a necessary purpose to help to clean our air for a better environment, reduce pollution and reduce respiratory diseases

• Pollution was the world’s biggest killer in 2021; the Green Belt helps to reduce pollution and clean our air

• The Green Belt is necessary for our mental health

• We need the Green Belt to stop urban sprawl – to stop towns or villages merging into each other

• The Green Belt is necessary for our physical health – it’s a place to exercise, to get fresh air, to get away

• Any time there’s a problem on M25, M1 or A414, the traffic on the Watford Road is solid

• Public Transport Access to St Albans City Station is limited to one bus in each direction every hour, the 724, a long distance Limited Stop Service which has poor regularity

• There is never enough parking for modern living outside new houses so cars from the new houses will leave their cars in Forge End and Long Fallow and walk to their homes

• Perfectly good natural former agricultural Green Belt land will be paved over forever extinguishing existing indigenous species

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Green Belt

• The public footpaths that traverse the Green Belt make the Green Belt available to everyone, for everyone’s benefit

• The Green Belt is necessary for our mental health

• Pollution was the world’s biggest killer in 2021; the Green Belt helps to reduce pollution and clean our air

• If we start eating into the Green Belt, where does it stop ? It’s protected for a reason

• We need to protect the St Albans Green Belt to stop an urban corridor between London and Luton

• If we start building on Chiswell Green’s Green Belt, we’ll join up with Bedmond pretty quickly and no longer be a village

Biodiversity

• Perfectly good natural former agricultural Green Belt land will be paved over forever extinguishing existing indigenous species

Relationship With The Surroundings

• There are lots of houses in Chiswell Green that are being renovated to make them bigger to accommodate families, or knocked down and rebuilt as two to accommodate smaller family units. This is increasing the number of homes in St Albans without building any big developments

• We have a declining birth rate, net emmigration from the UK and more people moving away from London as they’re working from home so we don’t need so many houses now in the South East

• A sudden increase in the population of the village of a third will cause an “us/them” situation as it is not easy to integrate such a sudden large number into an existing community

• Chiswell Green is a village, with specific charm and character, which for many is the reason for living here. This development will harm and completely change that character irreparably

• The new development will be completely out of keeping with the rest of the village

Public Transport

• Buses through Chiswell Green are mostly only 2 or 3 an hour, even in rush hour, and the timetable is erratic

• Public transport is poor from Chiswell Green; a 5-minute car journey to Park Street requires an hour’s journey by bus to St Albans Abbey Station and a train back to Park Street !

• It’s not easy to use public transport or to cycle; the buses are infrequent and only go straight to St Albans and Luton or to Watford

• The purpose Built National Cycle Path through Greenwood Park is seldom used for its original purpose. Will new cycle paths be better used? – I doubt it

• Chiswell Green Lane is not suitable for public buses on the grounds of safety

Parking

• In spite of a campaign to ‘Shop Local’ SADC imposed extra parking conditions and physical barriers to deter parking, e,g, raised kerbs outside the chemists and near Simmonds, 24/7 parking prohibited in the quiet little service road just down the A405 from Starbucks, excessive yellow lines in Chiswell Green Lane, Tippendell Lane and near the Chemists

• There is never enough parking for modern living outside new houses so cars from the new houses will leave their cars in Forge End and Long Fallow and walk to their homes

• Our neighbouring town of Hemel Hempstead has a very effective way of dealing with parking demand. In most of its streets pavement parking is encouraged. Pavements, on both sides of the road, are wide enough for pedestrians with buggies or wheelchairs and for parked cars. As a result the roads are not cluttered by parked cars and residents have more space as houses are not packed so closely together.

Size and Location

• St Albans in general and Chiswell Green in particular is hugely over-subscribed for medical and dental services. An extra 800 to 1000 residents will degrade services for all

• Adding nearly 1,000 new residents to a village of 2,800 is ridiculous. We will become a town overnight and lose our village character

Traffic

• There is not enough parking in the village for the shops

• Vehicles park all along the Watford Road to go to the Post Office

• There are traffic jams even at random, not busy times

• Stanley Avenue is already a ‘rat run’ to avoid the Watford Road. Residents from the new development would automatically use Stanley Avenue instead of Watford Road making Stanley Avenue even more dangerous

• From 2pm on a Friday, the roads around Chiswell Green are gridlocked with the Friday rush hour

Functioning Of The Development

• The existing bus route through Chiswell Green is too far from the new development to encourage the new residents to use it

• Chiswell Green is perfectly located for people who need good access to the main road routes nearby. New residents of these houses are likely to travel by car to work, not cycle

• St Albans is nearly 3 miles from the City Station with only 1 direct bus route per hour. Residents of the new development would use cars to travel to the station when car use is supposed to be discouraged

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Objection Ideas

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• The existing bus route through Chiswell Green is too far from the new development to encourage the new residents to use it

• Adding nearly 1,000 new residents to a village of 2,800 is ridiculous. We will become a town overnight and lose our village character

• Chiswell Green is a village, with specific charm and character, which for many is the reason for living here. This development will harm and completely change that character irreparably

• The Green Belt serves a necessary purpose to help to clean our air for a better environment, reduce pollution and reduce respiratory diseases

• Pollution was the world’s biggest killer in 2021; the Green Belt helps to reduce pollution and clean our air

• The Green Belt is necessary for our mental health

• We need the Green Belt to stop urban sprawl – to stop towns or villages merging into each other

• The Green Belt is necessary for our physical health – it’s a place to exercise, to get fresh air, to get away

• Any time there’s a problem on M25, M1 or A414, the traffic on the Watford Road is solid

• Public Transport Access to St Albans City Station is limited to one bus in each direction every hour, the 724, a long distance Limited Stop Service which has poor regularity

• There is never enough parking for modern living outside new houses so cars from the new houses will leave their cars in Forge End and Long Fallow and walk to their homes

• Perfectly good natural former agricultural Green Belt land will be paved over forever extinguishing existing indigenous species

Individual Categories

Green Belt

• The public footpaths that traverse the Green Belt make the Green Belt available to everyone, for everyone’s benefit

• The Green Belt is necessary for our mental health

• Pollution was the world’s biggest killer in 2021; the Green Belt helps to reduce pollution and clean our air

• If we start eating into the Green Belt, where does it stop ? It’s protected for a reason

• We need to protect the St Albans Green Belt to stop an urban corridor between London and Luton

• If we start building on Chiswell Green’s Green Belt, we’ll join up with Bedmond pretty quickly and no longer be a village

Biodiversity

• Perfectly good natural former agricultural Green Belt land will be paved over forever extinguishing existing indigenous species

Relationship With The Surroundings

• There are lots of houses in Chiswell Green that are being renovated to make them bigger to accommodate families, or knocked down and rebuilt as two to accommodate smaller family units. This is increasing the number of homes in St Albans without building any big developments

• We have a declining birth rate, net emmigration from the UK and more people moving away from London as they’re working from home so we don’t need so many houses now in the South East

• A sudden increase in the population of the village of a third will cause an “us/them” situation as it is not easy to integrate such a sudden large number into an existing community

• Chiswell Green is a village, with specific charm and character, which for many is the reason for living here. This development will harm and completely change that character irreparably

• The new development will be completely out of keeping with the rest of the village

Public Transport

• Buses through Chiswell Green are mostly only 2 or 3 an hour, even in rush hour, and the timetable is erratic

• Public transport is poor from Chiswell Green; a 5-minute car journey to Park Street requires an hour’s journey by bus to St Albans Abbey Station and a train back to Park Street !

• It’s not easy to use public transport or to cycle; the buses are infrequent and only go straight to St Albans and Luton or to Watford

• The purpose Built National Cycle Path through Greenwood Park is seldom used for its original purpose. Will new cycle paths be better used? – I doubt it

• Chiswell Green Lane is not suitable for public buses on the grounds of safety

Parking

• There is never enough parking for modern living outside new houses so cars from the new houses will leave their cars in Forge End and Long Fallow and walk to their homes

Size and Location

• St Albans in general and Chiswell Green in particular is hugely over-subscribed for medical and dental services. An extra 800 to 1000 residents will degrade services for all

• Adding nearly 1,000 new residents to a village of 2,800 is ridiculous. We will become a town overnight and lose our village character

Traffic

• There is not enough parking in the village for the shops

• Vehicles park all along the Watford Road to go to the Post Office

• There are traffic jams even at random, not busy times

• Stanley Avenue is already a ‘rat run’ to avoid the Watford Road. Residents from the new development would automatically use Stanley Avenue instead of Watford Road making Stanley Avenue even more dangerous

• From 2pm on a Friday, the roads around Chiswell Green are gridlocked with the Friday rush hour

Functioning Of The Development

• The existing bus route through Chiswell Green is too far from the new development to encourage the new residents to use it

• Chiswell Green is perfectly located for people who need good access to the main road routes nearby. New residents of these houses are likely to travel by car to work, not cycle

• St Albans is nearly 3 miles from the City Station with only 1 direct bus route per hour. Residents of the new development would use cars to travel to the station when car use is supposed to be discouraged

Fundamental Inaccuracies And False Presumptions

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