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Bedford Borough Local Plan 2040 Plan for Submission

Representation ID: 9792

Received: 23/07/2022

Respondent: Mr Peter Solomon

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

I am disappointed that this form is so technical and impossible for a layman to fill in properly. You have spent the money to post a map in every house, boasting “Have your say”, but this form is the only way to do so.

In your plan you propose “Strategic employment” (i.e. an industrial estate) at the junction of the A421 and A4280. There are already a large number of these estates around the borough – there is no need to disfigure Renhold Water End with another one. In addition, with the abhorrent Great Barford West development devouring land west of Barford, and this coming from the east, you intend to destroy the beautiful vista across to Barford and absorb Barford into Bedford itself. Please put your monstrous warehouse units and distribution centres somewhere less sensitive – e.g. around Wixams,