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Anne Main MP: "All across St Albans people are quite rightly livid about the plans to impose thousands of extra houses in and around St Albans. It appears that people are consulted, then ignored.
We know people need homes but we must protect our environment and ensure we only build sustainable communities at a rate that means the majority of development will be on Brownfield land. Our Greenbelt is precious and we already have high levels of congestion and local pollution, we owe it to our communities to only allow sensitive and appropriate development.
Without proper infrastructure we cannot cope with more homes. Our roads are clogged, water is in short supply, our schools are stretched and our local health services are in dire need of help.
But the Government has imposed top-down housing targets, set in Whitehall and administered by Regional Assemblies. Our local Council had been prepared to accept our fair share of housing and had agreed a total of 72,000, now it has decided Hertfordshire should have 83,000 more houses - swallowing our precious Greenbelt.
Regional Assemblies are part of this problem, they are unelected, unaccountable and unwanted – both I and the Conservative Party feel that these undemocratic and costly assemblies should scrapped."
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