When it's gone it's gone!

This is the issue that most upsets the population of Chalfont Common and Chalfont St. Peter.
In taking the petition house to house in the villages, the mention of this fact has encouraged more people to sign the petition than any other single factor.  People have had once been amazed and enraged that the NSE has even dared to suggest this, let alone on such a scale.

Panorama from Tate Road looking Southwest towards main NSE site. This is the proposed site for intensive housing.

The NSE assert that the above is 'within the building line' of their site. The above panorama was taken in front of the cottages on Tate Road which they've used to 'justify' that assertion.

So is it really Green Belt land?  sense believe that the Planning map on the left shows quite clearly what is designated Green Belt and also why it is reasonable that it be so. By the way, if anyone from the NSE is looking at this, the Green Belt land is shaded green. (Just in case you didn't realise). The area earmarked for intensive residential housing is inside the purple border.

As well as the main site to the South and West of Tate Road, several other area of Green Belt land are threatened by the NSE's housing proposals:

Field Southwest of Lakeman Hall

Northern boundary of proposed housing estate

Footpath from Rickmansworth Lane

Each of the three areas above are earmarked for residential housing by the NSE. The areas in the left-hand and right-hand photographs are within the yellow boundary in the map above - a clear indication why even the NSE's existing developed site is correctly classified as Green Belt. At present, its low-density and (mainly) single-storey layout provide the perfect buffer between extensive Green Belt in the Colne Valley Park and residential housing in the Chalfont Common/Chalfont St Peter areas.

Further words and details add nothing to the principle of green belt land remaining green and undeveloped. People in and around London know and cherish this principle.  sense hope the NSE will see sense too.