Object
Bedford Borough Local Plan 2040 Plan for Submission
Representation ID: 9446
Received: 29/07/2022
Respondent: Mr Stephen Rutherford
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
This and other developments in the plan create an 8 mile x 2 mile urban area to the south of Bedford.
If done well it will be a very big pleasant suburb. If done badly it will be a series of estates with small gaps of farmland in between.
Either way, very significant areas of countryside disappear.
This particular site pushes the edge of Shortstown almost to the edge of Cardington.
Most of this site could be returned to nature.
This and other developments in the plan create an 8 mile x 2 mile urban area to the south of Bedford.
If done well it will be a very big pleasant suburb. If done badly it will be a series of estates with small gaps of farmland in between.
Either way, very significant areas of countryside disappear.
This particular site pushes the edge of Shortstown almost to the edge of Cardington.
Most of this site could be returned to nature.