Green Belt land in Epping under threat
Monday 13th February, 2003
Worried residents packed a Waltham Abbey pub for the first stage of their fight to stop houses being built on almost four acres of Green Belt land in the town.
Up to 80 local people turned up at the Queen's Head pub, Paternoster Hill, to voice their disapproval against plans to change Knolley's Nursery in Pick Hill from horticultural to residential use.
Outline change of use plans have been submitted to Epping Forest Council by Buildtech Building Surveyors, from Southgate, agent of nursery owner Tony Knight.
Residents are worried that should permission be granted it will open the floodgates for the development of similar nurseries in Waltham Abbey thus eating up huge tracts of Green Belt land.