This petition requests that land at the Golf Club remains for homes as laid out in the draft local plan for Potters Bar.

The people of Potters Bar are in drastic need of housing and the golf course is the best place to build these homes without damaging the surrounding countryside of Potters Bar.

Potters Bar will experience worse disruption and pollution from building in the other Green Belt sites which are beside the M25 and A1(M) motorways.

This community needs more homes: Affordable homes. If they are not built on the golf course site (known as PB2) they will be built on the rolling green fields and woodland surrounding the town.

The proposed community hub will be in direct competition with the Council-owned Wyllyotts Centre and the numerous halls and centres around Potters Bar run by charities, which could be put at risk. And we already have a Library, so does the County Council back a new one? What will happen to our much loved Elm Court?

Where is the established demand for a hotel in Potters Bar and is there a hotel development company with a genuine proposal? How much noise and traffic would it generate for weddings, conferences and discos ?

This site is ideally placed for housing development with easy access to existing bus routes and the railway station, and it will bring a much-needed boost to the shops and businesses along Darkes Lane.

It would generate a huge amount of Community Infrastructure Levy which could pay for doctors’ surgery, public transport or road improvements.

Developers plan to exclude the use of the 6.5 hectares of land liable to flooding, leaving it as open space. Tree planting could make it carbon neutral.

Of the sites proposed for housing development in Potters Bar this site represents the best option – for accessibility and least damage to the green belt, which is already home to many natural habitats.