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Representation ID: 9630

Received: 26/07/2022

Respondent: Miss Natalie Goldsworthy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The Local Plan provides for many allocations designated for employment sites and considering the placement of EMP5, which isn’t supported in the same way as the Little Barford and Kempston Hardwick sites with regards to housing, there is a very realistic chance that this will be redesignated for an alternative use such as housing, which will contravene the proposed policy to ‘avoid coalescence with Wixams and Elstow.’ This will also set a dangerous precedent and will open up the area east of the A6 for further development and will result in urbanisation of the local area. There has also been unsuccessful delivery of site EMP6 which has not moved forward in the last 15 years, so it is unreliable but also further enhances that this is not a suitable development otherwise this would have progressed with some level of success.

The loss of agricultural land will be immensely significant as I understand that the site comprises of Grade 2 agriculture land, which is considered BMV and accordingly to national policy should be protected from significant, inappropriate, and unsustainable development proposals, such as this one. In addition, there is an abundance of wildlife in these areas which will be disrupted and completely lost.