Kings Langley residents have been left disappointed after more than a hundred homes at the Rectory Farm site were approved.
Campaigners have been left “deeply disappointed” as a 135-home development in the green belt was approved.
They feared losing the protected space between towns could lead to Kings Langley practically merging with Nash Mills and Abbots Langley and therefore losing its character as a village.Despite an apparent victory when Dacorum Borough Council rejected the proposal in October last year, on Friday the Planning Inspectorate allowed the appeal and so the scheme can now go ahead subject to conditions.
To consider the appeal, the Planning Inspectorate visited the site on April 8 and 10 and held a public inquiry between April 9 and April 12. The site had been included in an earlier draft of Dacorum’s local plan but was later removed. However, the Planning Inspectorate said this “carries very limited weight at this time” as a more formal version of the emerging local plan is still yet to be published.A spokesperson for the developers, Cala Homes and Angle Property, said they are “pleased” to have received full approval for the scheme which “will help to address the demand for housing in the local area".
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