Object
Local Plan 2040 Draft Plan - Strategy options and draft policies consultation
Representation ID: 8084
Received: 25/09/2021
Respondent: Mr John Wilkes
Local Plan 2040 – Great Barford.
Team Members
I write to object to the proposal to expand Great Barford, effectively urbanising it. The proposal flies in the face of the Borough’s own Sustainability Appraisal which found that urban growth reduced emissions, made better use of and access to facilities and promoted sustainable travel. This option, urban growth, has apparently been rejected in favour of damaging rural growth with the obvious impacts on road use, utility supplies, local services including policing, community identity, quality of life and wildlife. Furthermore, village expansion is already limited by the development and continuing development of gravel extraction activities on the village boundary.
Sincerely
John Wilkes.