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Council advised to grant green belt Traveller site, in Little Oxhey Lane

2:00pm Saturday 13th March 2010 in


Councillors are likely to approve a mobile home development on green belt land, in a bid to meet Gypsy and Traveller targets.

Three Rivers District Council will meet on Thursday evening to debate a planning application for The Paddock, in Little Oxhey Lane.

Its development control committee has been advised by expert planning officers to grant special dispensation to the applicant, Nathan Jordan, because he and his family can legally be classed as travellers.

The council, like many other local authorities in the countries, is under government orders to provide additional accommodation sites for travelling families.

A council report, prepared to brief committee members, said: “Such development, as proposed in this planning application, is normally considered inappropriate within the Metropolitan Green Belt. “However, the general need to provide Gypsy and Traveller accommodation within Three Rivers District and Hertfordshire County - in conjunction with the personal needs of the Jordans - are considered to amount to very special circumstances that outweigh any material harm caused to the Metropolitan Green Belt.”

The committee, which may choose to reject the recommendation, has been advised to grant permission for a period of five years, on the condition that only one mobile home will be stationed on the site at any one time.

Comments(8)

crazyfrog says...
6:10pm Sat 13 Mar 10

NO NO NO ! green belt is there for a reason ! it is there to protect our dwindling countryside, for go this simple protection and we will be a concrete jungle in no time, if its good enough for the Jordans to build on green belt then its good enough for anybody, but you can bet you bottom dollar that the councillors will appease this PC nonsense, i have said this before if the councillors want to do some good they should sack these so called expert planners now ! they are worse than useless

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Winston says...
9:05am Sun 14 Mar 10

Nathan Jordan will bend all the laws to his favour and disregard authorities reccommendations there will be dozens on travellers on the green belt land he has no respect for the local authories if they pass this they will regret it for the rest of there lives there will be trouble, just look at Mr Jordans track record not pleasent reading clearly the police are not aware of this application!!!!!!

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Mike Ribble says...
5:37pm Sun 14 Mar 10

TRDC councillors will have to be very sure of their ground if they choose to reject the advice of their own experts because such a decision would almost certainly go to appeal where it is likely to be reversed and could well then result in an award of costs against the council.

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crazyfrog says...
6:29pm Sun 14 Mar 10

They need to be no sure than the fact that this is green belt land protected land ! If this is allowed you may as scrap the green belt protection because it will mean absolutley nothing! consult the local people and they will all tell you the same, any councillor with the guts to oppose this will get 100 percent public backing thats for sure, those that pass it will feel the wrath of the electorate

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Rob Ridley says...
11:30pm Sun 14 Mar 10

TRDC cllrs, will they have a recorded vote and post it on this webpage or just hide?

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theguitarman says...
6:46am Mon 15 Mar 10

This application must be kicked out. One mobile home. yeah right. This man will join up 10 easily and call it one with 10 "families" all with the same name. If this applictaion goes through Watford and the surrounding area has years of seeing starving and ill horses on other peoples land. Just because the Gov't orders it doesnt mean TRDC has to jump.

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Winston says...
9:50am Mon 15 Mar 10

theguitarman wrote:
This application must be kicked out. One mobile home. yeah right. This man will join up 10 easily and call it one with 10 "families" all with the same name. If this applictaion goes through Watford and the surrounding area has years of seeing starving and ill horses on other peoples land. Just because the Gov't orders it doesnt mean TRDC has to jump.
Spot On Nathan Jordan is and has been behind years of placing horses on other peoples land fatting them up free of charge and selling at a profit to the EU and yet the authorties do nothing. Jordan is a law unto his own the authorities are scared of him - guitarman you say one will be join to ten more like fifty this application must not be passed.

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Winston says...
4:38pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Email:- geoff.dunne@threeriv
ers.gov.uk

Development Control Committee (Chairman)
with your views on this application

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