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Many years from now, someone is going to be rummaging through the Knebworth House Archive and find this forgotten old sketch.\u00a0 \u201cAh yes \u2013 this was a vain fantasy at the beginning of the 21st<\/sup> Century responding to years and years of village consultations that consistently identified traffic congestion and a backlog of road infrastructure as the No.1 concern of Knebworth residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see,\u201d the AI Knebworth House Archivist will say, \u201cwhen Knebworth Garden Village was planned at the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> Century, lots of connecting routes were envisaged but, as the village grew, not a single one of the planned new roads was put in.\u00a0 The old medieval lanes \u2013 Deards End Lane, Gipsy Lane and Swangleys Lane \u2013 that had existed to serve three old farms, were expected to serve the 2600 homes that came to comprise Knebworth Village.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the extra 600 of these homes were built, in the late 2020s, and a final opportunity presented itself to replace these old medieval lanes, it still never happened.\u00a0 The fashion at the Highways Department at that time was that nobody should use cars \u2013 they should bicycle their groceries up the hill and walk their children to school through the wind and the rain before finding their own way to work \u2013 which in those days you could often only get to by car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course there are plenty of reasons why this very old fantasy sketch – which imagined replacement routes to the old lanes – could never have worked.\u00a0 Third party landowners, widening an old tunnel under the railway\u2026 all much too expensive.\u00a0 Back then, all the money generated by new developments was needed to pay for arguing about them.\u00a0 Shame, though, that nobody at least tried to solve the problem\u2026 \u00a0Can I walk you back to your jetpack?\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry Lytton Cobbold
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