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Representation ID: 10358

Received: 29/07/2022

Respondent: Tim Simmons

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The green ‘corridor’ will actually be an island with little natural access to wildlife due to the surrounding roads. From my house I have Visibility of the fields to the north of Elstow brook. Currently a wild life have with Red Kites nesting in the ash trees, Badgers and Deer regularly visiting my garden. Grass snakes in the meadow adjacent to the Church and Herons and Barn owls patrolling the surrounding areas.

[photo and map provided in original rep]

Additional developments and the infrastructure they require will add to the pressure on the existing communities of wild life. In addition to this the new developments will add to the volume of traffic entering Bedford from the south via any available route- this causes Elstow High st to be a rat run already.