Support

Representation ID: 6373

Received: 13/09/2021

Respondent: CPRE Bedfordshire

Paras 3.10 to 3.14 – COMMENT
The spatial strategy options put forward in the draft plan offer a helpfully wide range of choices for consultees to comment on.
The following principles should apply to consideration of the Council’s preferred development options:
• The plan should adopt a ‘brownfield first’ approach to the spatial strategy.

• The focus on transport corridors is supported, subject to the need to avoid development intrusion on high quality agricultural land, open countryside, and rural communities as far as possible.

• Developments should be delivered in a way that maximises environmental protection and enhancement opportunities

• Full weight should be given to the views of parish councils and local residents