Updates to plans for 675 homes on green belt and natural beauty land have sought to tackle highways fears amid hundreds of objections.
A slew of new documents have been added to the Three Rivers District Council planning portal this month to amend alternative plans for 675 and 300 homes on the 55.8-acre site east of Green Street, Chorleywood, which is currently used for cattle grazing.
They provide further traffic analysis in response to issues raised by a highways, as well as responses to other concerns including those raised in Natural England feedback and a critical analysis of its impact on the landscape.
Part of the additional traffic assessments it carried out showed that, due to the cumulative impact of alongside other approved developments, the A404 and Church Grove junction would eventually operate over capacity with the 675 homes scheme.
Changes including installing new traffic signals at the junction have therefore been proposed as part of updated documents, which it said would accommodate forecast demand.
However, just since the new documents were added, 26 more objections have been submitted for the larger proposal - with several still highlighting transport issues. In total 598 objections and 98 supporting comments have been made since the outline application first went in on April 4.
Both proposals remain “pending consideration”.
The 675-home version would provide 126 one-bedroom homes, 204 two-bedroom homes, 257 three-bedroom homes and 88 four-bedroom homes.
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The land, within both the green belt and Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is owned by Chiltern Hills Golf Club which operates a partially completed 18-hole course on the west side of Green Street.
The council previously decided that plans for 800 homes on the same fields constituted “inappropriate development within the Green Belt” and that it would not conserve or enhance the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Savills appealed to the government planning inspectorate following refusal, but decided to withdraw it last October in order to further revise the plans. It claims the benefits of providing much needed housing outweigh any downsides.
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