Comment

Representation ID: 9549

Received: 12/07/2022

Respondent: Clive Baker

Number of people: 2

this plan is Unsustainable, for several reasons.

'Sustainable' is the most abused word in Planning.

The continued ever-increasing abstraction of water to meet planned increases to domestic and commercial consumption is unsustainable.

The continued development of hitherto agricultural land is unsustainable and unacceptable. The disappearance of our rural landscapes is unacceptable.

Your immediate and unquestioning acceptance of government housing and employment targets is unacceptable.

Borough has a shortage of school places, surgeries are built but there are not enough staff to provide adequate services, but this plan will place an even higher burden on services that clearly cannot cope.

Wootton has provided the Borough with £12m CIL from unwanted development in Wootton, none spent in Wootton. The Borough filches £200k from Rural Funds to fund Bedford High Street, a complete waste of money while Wootton is deprived access to S106 funds, indeed the Borough tries to force the Parish to pay for improvements that are the Borough's responsibility to fund.

The Borough's Planning Dept does not have enough staff to properly examine Planning Applications or breaches of Planning Permission, developers have a virtual carte blanche.

reconsider before it is too late