Stevenage Borough Local Plan Revised Housing Targets Consultation has been released and we are dismayed, although not surprised, to find that Forster Country has been identified as part of the Council's preferred option for house building. If this development is chosen, North Herts District Council will build on the adjacent land in effect linking Stevenage and the village of Gravely and obliterating most of Forster Country. A small patch of land has been identified by the... Borough Council as Forster Country and this will be preserved, although surrounded by housing.

If this development goes ahead we will lose an important literary landscape, wildlife habitat, valuable farmland and all the health
benefits which access to greenbelt provides.

The Consultation which may be viewed
online at: http://stevenage-consult.limehouse.co.uk/…/local_…/lpconsult

Please will you respond to the Consultation by *_27th July 2015_*** and help us to save Forster Country.

At a Forster Country committee meeting to discuss our response, we questioned:
- the housing figures quoted, (the last census showed that previous estimates of population growth in the town had been too low, but continual building in the town would inevitably increase the population)
- the need for Stevenage to continue to grow - why?
- the need for Stevenage to take their "fair share" of housing, (as a new town, Stevenage has been taking more than its fair share for decades).
- houses for Stevenage residents/affordable and council housing
- rolling back the greenbelt  (where to?)
- are these the "exceptional circumstances" which are required in order to build on greenbelt?

 

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