Representation by Nikolaus Rath
- Date submitted
- 19 June 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This plan will significantly impact me and my neighbours through increased noise and congestion on the roads and railways and indirectly through increased greenhouse gases. Furthermore, the applicant, Luton Rising, has failed to articulate a reasonable balance between the economic benefits of growth and the clear and substantial environmental costs. The key access roads, the M1 and A1 and local roads such as the A1081 and A515, are already subject to severe delay during the morning and evening peaks but the application’s proposals for improving the road network are extremely limited (and makes assumptions about future motorway use may not be achieved given concern about smart motorways). On the railways, the story is similar, during the morning and evening peaks Thameslink trains are overcrowded between Harpenden and St Pancras and there seems to be no plan for increasing the frequency of trains I do not see how Green Controlled Growth is an effective way of ensuring environmental conditions aren’t breached.