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Bedford Borough Local Plan 2040 Plan for Submission

Representation ID: 10136

Received: 28/07/2022

Respondent: S Mitchell

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Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

I am writing to oppose the proposed development at Water End and St Neats Road My reasons are as follows:
There are much better options for a new development than bringing Renhold into the urban extension.
There are also several brown field sites in the town and along Bramham Road north of Beverly Crescent, Kingsway and the Charles Wells brewery site in Queens Park; all of which already have the capacity and infrastructure needed for such a large development and you have already identified Kempston Hardwick and Little Barford as growth areas, both of which will have the infrastructure to support this madcap scheme.
Renhold is a Group 3 village. I would like it to stay that way. This development would bring so much more traffic into the village. Where is your traffic modelling? Where is your reflection? Where is the infrastructure to support such a major development? Where will you put the sheep that are currently grazing at Water End?
This is poorly thought out, illogical and in the wrong place.
Please think again, conduct traffic surveys and traffic modelling, see the sheep and the biodiversity that will be dispossessed of a home and cut this application from your 2040 Local Plan.