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STOP Harlow North

Unnecessary                                        Unsustainable                                        Undemocratic

 

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The results of the public consultation on the Issues and Options for the East Herts Core Strategy were presented to the Local Development Framework (LDF) Executive Panel earlier in the summer. The committee papers confirmed our own informal assessment that:
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Approx 89% of respondents supported the SHN campaign stance opposing Harlow North.

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In the area immediately impacted by the proposals 99% of respondents supported the SHN campaign stance opposing Harlow North

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Sawbridgeworth generated the largest number of supportive responses (over 650)

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Not a single person in Eastwick, Gilston, Allen's Green, High Wych, Hunsdon, Widford, Much Hadham or Little Hadham supported the proposals for Harlow North.

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87% of respondents from Bishops Stortford supported the SHN campaign stance opposing Harlow North.

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Nearly five times as many respondents from Ware opposed Harlow North as supported it.

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Nearly twice as many respondents from Hertford opposed Harlow North as supported it.

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Even in Buntingford, at the far north west of the district, more people disagreed than agreed with the consultants' approach

The Government's Localism Bill continues its passage through parliament. This Bill will abolish the Regional Spatial Strategies allowing East Herts to prepare its LDF without having to comply with centrally set housing targets and the diktat to build north of Harlow.

The next step is for the Council to prepare the Preferred Options for the East Herts Core strategy. 'The Preferred Options stage will be the first time that the District Council sets out for consultation its emerging views on a suitable development strategy for the district to 2031. In other words, the Preferred Options will set out in broad terms, where development should be located, together with a strategy for delivery of that development'. This will be consulted upon in May 2012 but we may know more about the ideas this autumn. The next LDF Executive Panel is scheduled for 24th November

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STOP Harlow North believes these proposals are

Unnecessary

Unsustainable

Undemocratic

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This site presents the aims and objectives of the STOP Harlow North action group.  We are dedicated to positively and actively opposing proposals to create a major development north of Harlow around the Hertfordshire villages of Eastwick, Gilston, High Wych, Hunsdon and Widford, and the town of Sawbridgeworth, on the basis that the locality needs:

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A better Harlow, not a bigger Harlow. Any development north of Harlow will compete with the existing town and hamper its regeneration

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To protect our environment. Greenbelt is there for a reason and should not be built on until all other alternatives have been exhausted.

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To protect the unique identity and historic character of rural villages

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To bring back fairness and democracy in the strategic planning process.

If you support one or more of these aims then please contact us by e-mail to find out how you can help ...or keep visiting this site for updates