# radlett.info

> An independent, resident-led information resource on the April 2026 Hertsmere Local Plan as it affects Radlett (a large village in Hertfordshire, England).

The Hertsmere Borough Council Draft Regulation 18 Local Plan (April 2026) proposes 2,900 new homes in Radlett across seven candidate sites (SA1–SA7). Three of those sites are large strategic urban extensions onto Green Belt fields. This site lays out:

- what is actually being proposed in the draft plan
- what the Council's own evidence base says about it (Sustainability Appraisal, Infrastructure Delivery Plan, Green Belt Assessment)
- a planning-policy-anchored response that residents can use, edit, or borrow paragraphs from when responding to the consultation

The consultation closes on 29 May 2026. Responses should be emailed to `local.plan@hertsmere.gov.uk`.

The site is independent and positioned as a civic information resource. It is not affiliated with Hertsmere Borough Council, Aldenham Parish Council, or any campaign group. It explicitly takes a different position from save-hertsmere.com on which Radlett sites should be reduced and how.

## Pages

Each HTML page has a matching markdown alternative at the same path with the extension changed from `.html` to `.md`. Agents should prefer the markdown version for parsing.

- Landing page — what is being proposed, the key facts from the Council's own evidence, the seven sites, and a call-to-action to the response page
  - HTML: <https://radlett.info/>
  - Markdown: <https://radlett.info/index.md>
- Draft consultation response — a complete planning-policy-anchored representation with one-click copy buttons (formatted and plain text) for Apple Mail, Outlook, and other mail clients
  - HTML: <https://radlett.info/radlett-localplan-response.html>
  - Markdown: <https://radlett.info/radlett-localplan-response.md>

## The position argued on this site

The site argues that the proposed Radlett allocation of 2,900 homes should be reduced to approximately 1,350–1,540 homes, with reasoning anchored in:

- the Council's own Sustainability Appraisal flagging that the western part of SA3 "would not relate very well to the settlement edge"
- the Council's own evidence that SA6 has a single road access constraint, Grade 2 BMV agricultural land, listed-building settings, and a long-distance trail (Hertfordshire Way) through it
- the SA6 promoter's own published scheme is for 600 homes, not 1,040
- SA4 is HCC public-sector land that could deliver Radlett's missing secondary school
- the borough-wide identified supply (21,400 homes) exceeds the standard-method need (16,160) by ~5,240 homes, so reducing Radlett does not break the plan's soundness
- three pieces of technical evidence (Level 2 SFRA, Water Cycle Study, Transport & Movement Assessment) are missing or in development at Reg 18 stage

## Key sources cited

- [Hertsmere Local Plan (Reg 18 April 2026)](https://www.hertsmere.gov.uk/planning-building-control/planning-policy/hertsmere-local-plan/new-local-plan)
- [Supporting studies (evidence base)](https://www.hertsmere.gov.uk/planning-building-control/planning-policy/hertsmere-local-plan/new-local-plan/supporting-studies)
- [NPPF (December 2024)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-planning-policy-framework--2)
- [Hertsmere Commonplace consultation portal](https://hertsmerelocalplan.commonplace.is/)

## Site metadata

- Sitemap: <https://radlett.info/sitemap.xml>
- robots.txt: <https://radlett.info/robots.txt>
- Consultation deadline: 2026-05-29
- Contact for consultation responses: `local.plan@hertsmere.gov.uk`
- Tech: static HTML/CSS/inline-SVG. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages. No tracking beyond Cloudflare Web Analytics (no cookies, no personal data).
- Editorial: every numeric claim cites a primary source. NPPF references use the December 2024 paragraph numbers.

## Optional

- The repo containing this site, the research notes that underpin it, and a CLAUDE.md briefing for LLM sessions is not currently public-facing. Contact the site owner for collaboration enquiries.