Bedford Borough reinforcements arrive to tilt the balance as opening shots are fired in village’s planning battle
Local Democracy Reporter
Reinforcements from the council have arrived just in time for the opening of a public inquiry into plans to build up to 80 new homes in Bromham...
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...
The Chair of Bedford Borough Council’s Planning Committee has hailed the adoption of the Bedford Borough Local Plan as a major boost for its work in...
Bromham Parish Councillors ‘shocked’ as new doctor’s surgery approved for Biddenham
Local Democracy Reporter
A plan for a new doctors’ surgery and care home in Biddenham to replace two part-time surgeries in Bromham has been approved despite objections...
Change of use permission granted to PCC for Greyfriars police station to achieve ‘the top price possible’
Erica Roffe
Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Kathryn Holloway, has won change of use planning permission which should settle the future of Greyfriars...
The development in Sharnbrook is site 238 in the Sharnbrook Neighbourhood plan. As the Sharnbrook Neighbourhood Plan has yet to be adopted it seems...
Campaigners fear that children’s lives will be put at risk on even busier roads if 81 new homes are built next to a school.
Villages being ‘savaged’ by developers as more houses given planning permission
Local Democracy Reporter
Bedford’s villages are being “savaged” by developers who are exploiting a massive breach in the borough’s planning defences.
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.