Official Campaign Against 10,000 New Houses
Being Dumped In Welwyn Hatfield

Without consultation, democratic mandate, evidence or a proper legal investigation the Government has told Welwyn Hatfield to find room for 10,000 extra houses!

The Transport Infrastructure (or lack of)

No To 10k Background

Don't We Need Homes

Transport Infrastructure

Water Supply

Buterflies

Health & Education

Location Of Houses

Welwyn Hatfield Council

Heritage of the Borough

Letter To Ruth Kelly

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Both rail and road networks are already under considerable strain.

Most notably the A1(M) narrows from 3 lanes to 2 at Welwyn and traffic is well-known to build up during busy periods, creating mayhem on local roads which turn into rat-runs.  Then there's the East Coast Mainline (ECML) which also narrows over the viaduct through Digswell.

This all means that rail links are nowhere near as good as they would need to be in order to support the size of population envisaged by this house building programme.

Surprisingly the plan to build 10,000 more houses in Welwyn Hatfield does not come with any additional funding to sort out our area's transport issues. The Government seems to believe that it can simply ignore the problem and that somehow it will go away.

We know that the truth is that without additional investment in road and rail, the area would grind to a halt once a predicted 20,000 additional vehicles and 30,000 people hit our streets.

Legal: No Way To 10k is a campaign established by Grant Shapps MP with support from across the community.
This site is promoted by A Perkins on behalf of G Shapps both of Maynard House, The Common, Hatfield, AL10 0NF.