Plan for submission evidence base

Object

Representation ID: 10467

Received: 29/07/2022

Respondent: Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust

Agent: DLP Planning Limited

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Please see accompanying Representations Report (Chapter 2)

As part of the Summer 2021 Consultation upon Preferred Strategy Options and Draft Policies (para 1.45 and 8.35) our client objected to the failure to prepare a Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan to inform the testing of reasonable alternatives and identification of an appropriate strategy.

The Council’s submission version Bedford Local Plan 2040 and its evidence base, including the published IDP, both fail to recognise the requirements for expansion at Lincroft Academy notwithstanding our client’s earlier submissions and that this need is acknowledged by the Borough Council’s Education department.

In relation to our client’s interests at Lincroft Academy Site ID: 832 / 839 MAT further objects to the failure to respond to the school’s clear and urgent requirement for expansion as part of determining the spatial strategy and distribution of growth through the plan-making process.