The biggest housing development “in the past ten years” will be discussed again at a public meeting tonight.
The proposed Leavesden Park development, a 45-hectare site in Aerodrome Way, will bring an estimated 1,063 new residents to the area.
Three Rivers District councillors voiced their opinions on the plans to build more than 400 homes and a hotel on Green Belt land, at a meeting on January 20.
MEPC, the developer, has proposed a contribution of about £500,000 to help expand the roads and public transport service for the area.
However, as previously reported in the Watford Observer, Watford Borough Council argue that the development is inappropriate for Green Belt land, and claim that it will have more of an impact on Watford than Three Rivers.
Speaking at the last meeting, Liberal Democrat ward councillor for Leavesden, Stephen Giles-Medhurst, described the development as on a scale “not seen in the past ten years”.
As the application is so large, members of the development control committee will again only discuss the plan, rather than making a decision to refuse or approve it.
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