LDF Steering Group recommends an approach to the green belt boundary
The Council’s Local Development Framework
Steering Group recommended an approach to the Green Belt boundary
at last night’s meeting. The Group recommended that about 10
hectares of Green Belt land at Greater Brookfield be released from
the green belt and the whole area be identified as a strategic
location for new retail, leisure and housing development. The
Group also recommended that some other areas be identified as
potential areas to meet long term future development needs and
other, environmentally sensitive and that important parcels of land
should be permanently protected from development.
The Group recommended that the town planning
blueprint, the Core Strategy should retain land to the West of
Hoddesdon, the Bury Green Area, the Goff’s Oak Area, the Southern
A10 Corridor and at Theobalds Park Farm, Waltham Cross in the Green
Belt. The areas are, however identified as potential areas of
development should the need arise in the future. The Group
agreed that land to the West of Wormley and the Halstead Hill
Triangle should remain in the Green Belt and not be identified as
potential development areas.
This approach will now be incorporated into
the Core Strategy to be presented to future meetings of the
Planning and Licensing Committee and Council for approval. It
is now anticipated that the Core Strategy will be the subject of
public consultation in July and August 2010, with submission for
public examination in October and adoption in March/April 2011.
Further information on the Council’s planning
policies is available in the ‘environment
and planning’ section.