Object

Local Plan 2040 Draft Plan - Strategy options and draft policies consultation

Representation ID: 5640

Received: 07/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Phillip Yockney

Representation Summary:

The scoring system used appears to score the same for 7 of the 15 criteria for all options including protecting a maintain biodiversity and landscape character. We believe the criteria / scoring system is insufficiently sensitive if it produces so little variation between the options. In the favoured options 2a to 2d, we believe that Bedford Borough Council have failed to properly consider / reflect in their scoring the true impact of new settlements (incl. Dennybrook (site 977)) on promoting Bedford as a town centre, landscape character, loss of good agricultural land and greenfield land.