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Pouchen End (West Hemel Hempstead)
This is an area which was considered during the Borough Plan Public Inquiry in 2000,
and rejected on landscape and other grounds by the Inspector.
The area adjoins the Local Nature Reserve of Shrubhill Common, for which it provides a
valuable wildlife corridor. Detailed proposals in 2000 included an exit roundabout
onto Long Chaulden (in picture) , directly opposite the entrance to the children’s
adventure playground.
The West Hemel proposals would extend the town boundary and mar this view across
the Bulbourne Valley from near the top of Felden Lane.
The West Hemel proposals would cover these fields with housing. They
directly adjoin parts of Chaulden and the Fields End Estate, where the boundary
of the town is at present clearly and logically delineated by a footpath and double
hedgerow between Long Chaulden and Fields End Farm. "Rationalisation" of this
as a defensible boundary was used as justification for building the Fields End
Estate on Green Belt land in the 1980s
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