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Representation ID: 8207

Received: 03/09/2021

Respondent: Mrs Bernadette Yockney

Staploe Parish Council proposed in response to the Issues and Options Paper that the more appropriate growth strategy would be to apply a dispersed growth strategy (grey option), targeting housing and employment growth attached and within existing settlements and along transport corridors. Such a strategy would negate the need to build on the wider ‘open countryside’ attributed to the Parish of Staploe and align with the parish’s submitted objections to being classified as “Urban Growth”.
I consider that option 2b with a new settlement at Little Barford is the best option. The East West rail station south of St Neots will provide a truly sustainable form of development at Little Barford. It will be better connected to the new station than Dennybrook. The latter does not provide a suitable alternative – too far from the rail station, risk of coalescence, good agricultural land. Our second preference if Little Barford were deemed unsuitable would be Twinwoods at Thurleigh as a significant part of the site is brownfield land. See above and site assessments for reasons.