Looking at the proposed local draft plan Central Beds council might as well DISREGARD the rest of the County and legislate to Concrete and Brick over the whole of the Farming land proposed or not within the A1 and Proposed East-West rail link. As you can see this is rather tounge in cheek, but is it really when a cursory glance at the areas which are proposed show Swaiths of farm land being sold off for housing and employment.
At the moment you can cycle down towards Dunton and look across the fields towards Sutton. In the future if all the proposed land is acquired doing the same ride and you could be looking into somebodies rear garden. Is this what the country side could be turning into Please will not go on any further but do not get me started on the lack of any Infrastructure at present or before any development even gets started or finished, then of course there the total destruction of the local natural environment,
As you can realise I live in the SG18 postcode I understand there is a housing shortage but can it not be distributed over the whole of Central Bedfordshire, it seems where the council own the most land which can be sold off to developers at a profit which will not reduce council tax bills but go straight into the council coffers to pay for Inflated pensions.
So therefore Please take this as an OBJECTION to the Proposed Plan for the SG area i.e. The A1corridor
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Fred McCarthy
9 years ago
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All the open spaces are also being used for housing. Where are the parks and playing facilities for the increasing population. We have to travel to Bedford to enjoy these type of facilities, this cannot be right.
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Tony Hughes
9 years ago
Outrageous about turn on previous commitment to not develop the other side of Saxon Drive, and subsequently Baden Powell Way (see draft local plan). Roll over for the developers, take prime agricultural land, sell of CBC land for quick profit which does not benefit Biggleswade, overload the schools, the roads, the health services while at the same time subsidising other areas protected from any development in Central Beds. The Leader's recent letter to the press talks protecting about our rural agricultural heritage as does the local plan. perhaps some of the money could go to a museum because there certainly wont be any local agriculture to remember our heritage by. Any new housing does not benefit the local community who need housing. Purely inflating house prices out of reach from locals in favour of London overspill catchment. A fare share of development should go to all areas of Central Beds. Spread the load.
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Gillian Backhouse
9 years ago
We need infrastructure in before more housing,
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Gillian Backhouse
9 years ago
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We need an infrastructure before more housing. We have a station with no disabled access or toilets. We have two doctors surgeries that are over subscribed. Town and station parking is almost non existent. Schools are not coping with the pupils they have without adding more.
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Helen Price
9 years ago
I disagree with the proposed new development in Biggleswade. We are already over populated and suffering from severe congestion on our local roads. If one main road becomes blocked, then the whole of the town grinds to a halt. We need to preserve our agricultural land as this is our future. Our emergency services are already overstretched in this area and don't need further pressure being added to them, and you wonder why their response times are being impacted.
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Michael Price
9 years ago
This planned development is a step too far. Biggleswade is already overdeveloped and its current infrastructure is woefully inadequate. We need to preserve our neighbouring green belt area. We have already had a large amount of rapid grown over a very short period of time.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Total object to CBC housing developments in BW. Consultation needed urgently
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Pat Slane
9 years ago
We do not need more housing in the Biggleswade area. The infrastructure is not here to cope with mote people and cars. Parking in Biggleswade is a nightmare. Help is needed at the station for the elderly and disabled. Schooling will not be able to cope. St Andrews East on King Reach had only been open a year before it has to be extended. Bad planning.
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Glenys Ingrey
9 years ago
When will the developing end! When Biggleswade, Dunton, Sutton and Sandy are a connurbation.
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Carolyn Booth
9 years ago
The Local Plan is worrying on many counts. Biggleswade has seen huge development over the last few years with no real corresponding adjustments to the infrastructure. For example, I have noticed a big change to our Doctors' Surgery over the past year. Whereas it used to take a pro-active approach to patient care, it is now struggling to cope, and things like yearly reviews are now done "on paper" instead of face to face with a G.P. There was a promise of a new surgery with the last developments at King's Reach but this never materialised. How can we possibly trust vague promises from Central Beds about improvements and benefits arising from the new plans when we have been so badly let down before?
I am also disturbed that the plans include possible development on large amounts of so called “green field” land. This is unacceptable given that we have a growing population who need to be fed as well as housed. I do hope that, at the very least, these parcels of land are removed from the plans.
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Steve Booth
9 years ago
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In addition to the many comments on lack of infrastructure, I'd also like to make the point that the latest proposed local plan could see development of over 400 acres of Grade 1 & 2 agricultural land at a time when, post Brexit, we are going to need all the food growing capacity we can get.
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Maureen Best
9 years ago
CBC cannot continue major building in Biggleswade without a significant improvement in infrastructure- the town's infrastructure is already collapsing with the current large-scale house building.
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colin harries
9 years ago
The development proposed is out of proportion to the size of Biggleswade there is not the facilities to support this amount of increase in population.
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Vaughan Johnson
9 years ago
Totally agree. Planning for the long term, e,g, for sensible recreational/ environmental/ educationally sound development first and alongside commercial, housing and infrastructure needs an overal agreed plan.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
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We don't have the infrastructure for the huge development already taking place in Biggleswade let alone another further 230 houses. We use the proposed area off Saxon gate as a family for walking with our children and dog, this will therefore impact on us.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Need sensible approach to development. Need to consider the impact on the environment, current residents and infrastructure i.e. Schools, GP Surgeries and roads
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Kelly Chandler
9 years ago
Too many houses, too little infrastructure, too much crime due to the increased number of people
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Not needed!!!! Plenty of room elsewhere
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Julia Black
9 years ago
The latest proposed houses east of Saxon Drive are outside the town development envelope, outside the Green Wheel (Biggleswade's Green Belt) and sets a dangerous precedent for further encroaching on agricultural land around a Biggleswade. The town has grown by more than 40% in the last few years with little investment in infrastructure. We need a moratorium in building for at least the next 5 yrs so that impact on communities, environments etc can be properly assessed.
Looking at the proposed local draft plan Central Beds council might as well DISREGARD the rest of the County and legislate to Concrete and Brick over the whole of the Farming land proposed or not within the A1 and Proposed East-West rail link. As you can see this is rather tounge in cheek, but is it really when a cursory glance at the areas which are proposed show Swaiths of farm land being sold off for housing and employment. At the moment you can cycle down towards Dunton and look across the fields towards Sutton. In the future if all the proposed land is acquired doing the same ride and you could be looking into somebodies rear garden. Is this what the country side could be turning into Please will not go on any further but do not get me started on the lack of any Infrastructure at present or before any development even gets started or finished, then of course there the total destruction of the local natural environment, As you can realise I live in the SG18 postcode I understand there is a housing shortage but can it not be distributed over the whole of Central Bedfordshire, it seems where the council own the most land which can be sold off to developers at a profit which will not reduce council tax bills but go straight into the council coffers to pay for Inflated pensions. So therefore Please take this as an OBJECTION to the Proposed Plan for the SG area i.e. The A1corridor
All the open spaces are also being used for housing. Where are the parks and playing facilities for the increasing population. We have to travel to Bedford to enjoy these type of facilities, this cannot be right.
Outrageous about turn on previous commitment to not develop the other side of Saxon Drive, and subsequently Baden Powell Way (see draft local plan). Roll over for the developers, take prime agricultural land, sell of CBC land for quick profit which does not benefit Biggleswade, overload the schools, the roads, the health services while at the same time subsidising other areas protected from any development in Central Beds. The Leader's recent letter to the press talks protecting about our rural agricultural heritage as does the local plan. perhaps some of the money could go to a museum because there certainly wont be any local agriculture to remember our heritage by. Any new housing does not benefit the local community who need housing. Purely inflating house prices out of reach from locals in favour of London overspill catchment. A fare share of development should go to all areas of Central Beds. Spread the load.
We need infrastructure in before more housing,
We need an infrastructure before more housing. We have a station with no disabled access or toilets. We have two doctors surgeries that are over subscribed. Town and station parking is almost non existent. Schools are not coping with the pupils they have without adding more.
I disagree with the proposed new development in Biggleswade. We are already over populated and suffering from severe congestion on our local roads. If one main road becomes blocked, then the whole of the town grinds to a halt. We need to preserve our agricultural land as this is our future. Our emergency services are already overstretched in this area and don't need further pressure being added to them, and you wonder why their response times are being impacted.
This planned development is a step too far. Biggleswade is already overdeveloped and its current infrastructure is woefully inadequate. We need to preserve our neighbouring green belt area. We have already had a large amount of rapid grown over a very short period of time.
Total object to CBC housing developments in BW. Consultation needed urgently
We do not need more housing in the Biggleswade area. The infrastructure is not here to cope with mote people and cars. Parking in Biggleswade is a nightmare. Help is needed at the station for the elderly and disabled. Schooling will not be able to cope. St Andrews East on King Reach had only been open a year before it has to be extended. Bad planning.
When will the developing end! When Biggleswade, Dunton, Sutton and Sandy are a connurbation.
The Local Plan is worrying on many counts. Biggleswade has seen huge development over the last few years with no real corresponding adjustments to the infrastructure. For example, I have noticed a big change to our Doctors' Surgery over the past year. Whereas it used to take a pro-active approach to patient care, it is now struggling to cope, and things like yearly reviews are now done "on paper" instead of face to face with a G.P. There was a promise of a new surgery with the last developments at King's Reach but this never materialised. How can we possibly trust vague promises from Central Beds about improvements and benefits arising from the new plans when we have been so badly let down before? I am also disturbed that the plans include possible development on large amounts of so called “green field” land. This is unacceptable given that we have a growing population who need to be fed as well as housed. I do hope that, at the very least, these parcels of land are removed from the plans.
In addition to the many comments on lack of infrastructure, I'd also like to make the point that the latest proposed local plan could see development of over 400 acres of Grade 1 & 2 agricultural land at a time when, post Brexit, we are going to need all the food growing capacity we can get.
CBC cannot continue major building in Biggleswade without a significant improvement in infrastructure- the town's infrastructure is already collapsing with the current large-scale house building.
The development proposed is out of proportion to the size of Biggleswade there is not the facilities to support this amount of increase in population.
Totally agree. Planning for the long term, e,g, for sensible recreational/ environmental/ educationally sound development first and alongside commercial, housing and infrastructure needs an overal agreed plan.
We don't have the infrastructure for the huge development already taking place in Biggleswade let alone another further 230 houses. We use the proposed area off Saxon gate as a family for walking with our children and dog, this will therefore impact on us.
Need sensible approach to development. Need to consider the impact on the environment, current residents and infrastructure i.e. Schools, GP Surgeries and roads
Too many houses, too little infrastructure, too much crime due to the increased number of people
Not needed!!!! Plenty of room elsewhere
The latest proposed houses east of Saxon Drive are outside the town development envelope, outside the Green Wheel (Biggleswade's Green Belt) and sets a dangerous precedent for further encroaching on agricultural land around a Biggleswade. The town has grown by more than 40% in the last few years with little investment in infrastructure. We need a moratorium in building for at least the next 5 yrs so that impact on communities, environments etc can be properly assessed.