{"id":1001,"date":"2025-05-03T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:05:47","slug":"january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Year!\u00a0 Lots of positive things to look forward to.\u00a0 Spring.\u00a0 Snowdrops, daffodils, bluebells, June busting out all over\u2026\u00a0 But a few of the old chestnuts are still hanging around.\u00a0 Are you sufficiently holidayed and refreshed for yet another tussle about vehicle traffic in Knebworth?\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p>KB 1 &amp; 2 proposals for residential development along the western edge of New Knebworth are being presented for consultation in the Village Hall from 4pm to 8pm on Monday 13<sup>th<\/sup> January.\u00a0 I have been working with housebuilder partners to negotiate the Local Authority hoops, hurdles and rule changes for about seven years now, and I wish I could say I was more positive about what is being proposed.\u00a0 Having played an active part in the many village consultations since the last Local Plan in 1996, I know exactly what the general feeling will be about these proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, they don\u2019t answer the key negative raised in all these consultations, Knebworth\u2019s historic backlog of road and access infrastructure.\u00a0 Current Highways ideology and policy \u2013 which may be perfectly splendid for other communities \u2013 does not work for Knebworth. \u00a0This is, plain and simple, for historic and landscape reasons, not because Knebworth is looking to buck a trend.\u00a0 County Highways appear to answer to no one, and so the proposals to be presented have not been allowed to bring forward community-driven solutions.\u00a0 What we have instead \u2013 as the people who live here will immediately see \u2013 looks set to make the problems worse, across the whole village.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, the 30 years of consultations also raised a key positive of Knebworth as its \u2018Garden Village\u2019 heritage; and this \u2013 where allowed to \u2013 the proposals do draw on, and seek to reflect in a contemporary context.\u00a0 With your support, we should be able to create good and attractive neighbourhoods, with hedges, trees, snowdrops and daffodils&#8230;\u00a0 We just won\u2019t be able to get in or out of them.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/henrycobboldkh\">HenryCobboldKH<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Deards-End-Lane-traffic_bw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-984 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Deards-End-Lane-traffic_bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"1000\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Deards-End-Lane-traffic_bw.jpg 630w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Deards-End-Lane-traffic_bw-189x300.jpg 189w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 630px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 630\/1000;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Year!\u00a0 Lots of positive things to look forward to.\u00a0 Spring.\u00a0 Snowdrops, daffodils, bluebells, June busting out all over\u2026\u00a0 But a few of the old chestnuts are still hanging around.\u00a0 Are you sufficiently holidayed and refreshed for yet another tussle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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