{"id":812396,"date":"2026-10-24T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812396\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:06:12","slug":"what-will-being-70-bigger-mean-for-baldock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812396\/","title":{"rendered":"What will being 70% bigger mean for Baldock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The biggest building project Baldock has seen for many years is being led by the developer, Urban&amp;Civic, in partnership with the landowner, Hertfordshire County Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will occupy 527 acres (213 hectares) of land to the east of the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If all 3,200 homes are built, the housing stock would increase by about 70%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme will also include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project was <a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.north-herts.gov.uk\/documents\/s32440\/25-02571-OP%20Report.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">given outline planning permission, external<\/a> by North Hertfordshire councillors on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kitty Eyre, the development manager at Urban&amp;Civic, said it was an &#8220;important milestone&#8221; for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;[It] is the result of several years of detailed work and, most importantly, conversations with the people who know Baldock best.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest building project Baldock has seen for many years is being led by the developer, Urban&amp;Civic, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}