The development in Sharnbrook is site 238 in the Sharnbrook Neighbourhood plan. As the Sharnbrook Neighbourhood Plan has yet to be adopted it seems...
Major planning decisions will be taken behind closed doors until the coronavirus crisis is over. Bedford Council’s planning committee has decided...
Father’s ‘biblical plague’ fears about council depot revamp are rejected by planners
Local Democracy Reporter
A father feared that his daughter would be subjected to “biblical plagues” of rats and flies from the reorganisation of a council depot...
Councillor says ‘democratic rights’ at stake during planning committee’s lockdown
Local Democracy Reporter
A councillor says the democratic rights of the public are being lost during the planning committee’s lockdown.Cllr Alison Foster (Cons, Harrold ward)...
Farmer tells planning committee: ‘Don’t scapegoat us for all the lorries in Pavenham’
Local Democracy Reporter
A farmer’s use of buildings for storage and distribution – and the lorries associated with the business – has split the community in Pavenham.
Four mature trees – and possibly a fifth – are to be sacrificed to the needs of parents driving their children to and from a school...
MP for North East Bedfordshire, Richard Fuller (Con), has said that more needs to be done to take into account shortages of public services, like GP appointments, because...
A socially distanced visit will be arranged so councillors can see a Kempston street’s parking problems. Councillors heard there is opposition from...
Councillors have controversially granted permission to an “anti-democratic” plan for 20 new homes in a village near Bedford.
A site called Hayle Field, off High Street, in Thurleigh...
Residents of Wixams have said they feel like they are being 'deliberately ignored' by Bedford Borough Council's planning department and claim their...
Planning, it’s never far from the headlines nationally, or locally. The rule book rewritten in 2012 and the Regional Spatial Strategies abandoned. Eight years on and the headlines are full of talk...
400 homes for Bedford village could be a case of ‘when, not if’ inspector rules
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A plan for 400 homes and a new primary school on village land just outside Bedford has been binned – for the time being. A Government planning inspector says...