Knebworth Parish Council

Congratulations to the Knebworth Festival Committee for another great week long event. Long may it continue.

Well done Knebworth!  At the June County Council and European elections there was a voter turnout of 43% for our area.

Thank you to NHDC Planning Department for a quick response to my plea for clarification regarding the time that the builders should be starting work in the morning on the conversion to the Station House building. I had been woken up at 6.45am.  Their response was that there should be no noise until 8am and that the builders had now been informed of this. Anyone disturbed before that time should contact NHDC Environmental Health department. So far it seems to have worked.

In 2007 NHDC consulted on land allocations across the district to identify sites to accommodate the number of dwellings required by the East of England Plan. Knebworth was identified as a sustainable village but there are significant constraints on both sewerage and the capacity of the village school.  NHDC considered that additional greenfield development could therefore not be supported in the village and did not include any greenfield sites in Knebworth.

Representations have since been made to NHDC to include five or six greenfield sites in and around Knebworth for development.  The District Council is now proposing further consultation on these which is due to commence at the end of June or early July and will last for eight weeks.  It will be advertised locally. The document will be on the North Herts District Council website and a web link will be made available on the Parish Council website. Please look at the document and make comment.

Once published the Parish Council will attempt to mount two exhibitions of these documents in the Village Hall where residents can look at them and discuss their implications with fellow residents and Parish Councillors.  We expect that one of these will be early in September (details in the August Parish News). The other may be in the second half of July. Look out for publicity about this on Parish noticeboards, in the library and on posters.