by jbond » Sun 23 Sep 2018 6:19 am
AndyB, I'm not sure you realise the big figures are not just Ware. It's 839 houses per year from 2011-2033 which is 18,913 for the whole of East Herts, not 18000 just in Ware. The Ware figures are 100 by 2022, 800 in 2022-2027 and 100 2027-2033. With an option of an extra 500 if they build the Hertford Bypass.
And that points up the wider problem. 1000 in Ware, 1000 in Hertford, 1500 in E. Welwyn, 3000 in Gilston and the A414 grinds to a halt. If you bring in all the neighbouring councils, it's around 50,000 new homes within 20 miles of Hertford. Harlow has plans for expansion, East, South, West as well as Gilston in the North. The other three are in other councils so part of other District Plans. But they all have to share the Hospital and the Train Station. And anybody that wants to drive eastwards towards Stevenage, Welwyn and Hatfield will travel on the same A414. Broxbourne council is doing the same thing in Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and so on, which directly affects us because of the effect on the A10 and the same surrounding roads, the same train service, the same NHS hospitals, the same sewage works and so on.