Residents living in an idyllic market down have accused their council of 'eroding trust' after they U-turned on a controversial plan to build more than 2,000 homes on green belt land at the 11th hour.
They also highlighted how Dacorum Council 'wasted taxpayer money' by spending 'hundreds of thousands of pounds' on funding planning barristers to successfully block a developer from building on the site in March this year. Campaigners say Tring would 'no longer be a market town' because it would grow by 40 per cent - something they say is being fuelled by Labour's war on green belts.
Resident Vernon Lace, 55, told MailOnline: 'It will just ruin the town and make it unrecognisable from why so many of us moved here. American tourist Jan Furr was visiting friends in Tring from South Carolina and said he was 'horrified' by the plans 'The whole charm of Tring is that it is a quiet market town. That will all change if thousands of new people arrive. I can't see what it will add to the town.The Zoological Museum in the tranquil town of Tring
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE I'm building 62 new homes thanks to little-known loophole Homes in the area sell cost on average £650,000, according to a local estate agent.Most the shops are independent with the only chain on the High Street a Costa Coffee shop and a M&S food store. Others such as a card shop, ironmongers and restaurant are all independent.Local resident Barbara, who declined to give her surname, said: 'It will change the way the town looks and feels.
Mr Bright explained that the proposed sites 'lead directly onto the AONB', adding: It's not like a bit of scrubland on the edge of the town' Read More Police called to row between OAPs at retirement housing estate over position of a vase of FLOWERS 'Dacorum and ourselves funded planning barristers to fight the developer and that appeal went to the Secretary of State, Michael Cove at the time, and he rejected it.'So Dacorum have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds fighting not to build on this land and that process only finished a few months ago. And that's why we just can't understand the U-turn.