Harts Farm and the surrounding area is on a flood plain. This was Little Bushey Lane yesterday after a downpoor.

Imagine the situation if 350 new houses and a school is built on the Farm.

This development must be stopped.

Kicking off our campaign to challenge the use of Green Belt land at Harts Farm for housing will be a community meeting on Wednesday 13 October at 8pm.

To be held at the Metropolitan in Aldenham Road, it will provide the opportunity to hear what the objections to the plan are in the Hertsmere Draft Local Plan and voice your own concerns.

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With 350 houses and a school planned for Harts Farm fields and now the farm and stables as well, we must be strident in fighting the loss of our green belt.

The public consultation on the Draft Local Plan opens on Monday 11 October and we will have just six weeks to make the most robust stand against the unsuitability of the site on environmental and planning grounds.

The Little Bushey Community committee has met and is progressing a plan to challenge the proposals and is urging residents to get behind this.

We are currently updating the evidence submitted in response to the Planning for Growth document published in 2018 where we made a clear case for not releasing this land from the green belt on the basis of traffic levels, flooding, loss of wildlife and lack of sustainability.

We’ll be launching the campaign with a public meeting and new website, but please get in touch now through our contact page, especially if you have the commitment and enthusiasm to join us on the committee.

Hertsmere Borough Council propose to allow the building of 350 homes and a primary school on the Harts Farm field site.

The draft Local Plan has been published today months ahead of the second delay until the new year.

Bushey is to have 2,895 homes to be built, with Little Bushey bearing the brunt of the proposals as a further 750 are planned on Compass Park, further along Little Bushey Lane.

The Plan will go out to public consultation next month and Little Bushey Community will be challenging the proposal.

Proposals for this and the other sites can be found here.