Campaign for Colney: This is a protest song
London Colney is a village in Hertfordshire with 3800 homes and 9000 residents.
Hertsmere Council plan to build between 4000-8000 new homes in and around our village. As they are a different borough, despite it being unethical, they do not have to consult with us.
They have not consulted with us and our council (St Albans) are not challenging Hertsmere.
London Colney is under St Albans Council control. As part of their (seperate) local plan they are ALSO planning around 600 new homes in London Colney on 2 more sites.
Both Councils have undertaken questionable so called 'public consultations'. Hertsmere have admitted the proposed London Colney 'Garden Village' is their 'preferred' plan.
In effect, this peaceful village may soon treble in size.
Now is the time to protest, to say enough is enough! We are not anti home NIMBY's, but we ARE against the scale of these proposals. We do not believe there will be affordable housing. We question the rhetoric of it being new homes for 'our children' who would never be able to afford them. We are being steamrollered and we want to protect the Green belt, not concrete it over with no infrastructure plans as we continue to be ignored.
We want the local plan Shambles across the UK to be challenged with brown field and other options, not green field. We want MP's to lobby Government on our behalf and stop this madness now. We have been ignored and felt the only way left to get our message across was to record a Protest song.
This is that protest song.
Enjoy and SHARE.
Thankyou.
www.campaignforcolney.com
campaignforcolney@yahoo.com