More doctors must come before new homes in south-west Hertfordshire, a senior councillor has said.
Councillor Oliver Cooper, leader of the Conservative Group at Three Rivers District Council, has warned his colleagues that developers could wriggle out of their infrastructure obligations in the emerging local plan.
At a council meeting on Tuesday, October 17, when a consultation on the draft plan was green-lit, Cllr Cooper told authority leaders “legally secured” infrastructure is not a guarantee it will come forward once homes are built and sold. If developers want to build 850 homes west and south of Maple Cross, the emerging policies suggest they should be prepared to provide primary education facilities potentially in the form of an extension to an existing school, a local centre with shops, play space and a GP surgery.
He said: “When the ICB says ‘we are not going to operate it’, any applicant can then get a 96A application through. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer told BBC Three Counties Radio the planning system is like the “Wild West” in an interview. “There’s got to be a coherent plan that’s got the infrastructure – it could be GPs, schools or train stations.”
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