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| 20/06/2008 |
Nampak Site - Phase 3 Messrs Wimpey are consulting again in respect of their proposals for Phase 3 seeking to substantially change what is set out in the agreed MK Local Plan. Representation made - BACKGROUND
Under MK Unitary Authority’s Local Plan – the old Plysu site, known locally as the Nampak Site in Woburn Sands was designated to receive 270 dwellings. There was considerable local concern in respect of this development particularly in res... |
| 18/06/2008 |
Traffic Calming in Weathercock Lane and Station Road Woburn Sands - Funding is in place for traffic calming in respect of Weathercock Lane. Woburn Sands Town Council are also considering proposals in respect of other traffic calming in the town. We are advised that this latter has no funding identified at present.
An... |
| 16/06/2008 |
Mid Bed LDF Site Allocations Issues and Options Allocations Consultations - following the inititial consultation (see documents library) a further 70 submissions have been put forward by landowners and developers. Consultation due in July - Mid Bedfordshire District Council(MBDC) must provide 17,000 homes upto 2026 as set out in the Draft East of England Plan, of which 12,500 have already been "committed" i.e. allocated in previous plans or with planning permission. This leaves around 4,500 ... |
| 09/06/2008 |
East of England Plan and Supporting Docment has now been published.Habitats assessment in respect of flooding and Ouse washes ignored - East of England Plan and Supporting Docment in respect of the Habitats assessment and consultation has now been published. Mid Bedfordshire falls within the area of this plan as well as suffering encroachment from the South East Plan offloading housing ... |
| 20/05/2008 |
Marston Vale Eco Towns proposal. Messrs Gallaghers propose 7,000 dwellings at Wixams, and Messrs O& H Properties propose 15,000 homes between Wixams and Brogborough. Comments required by end of June - One proposal has been shortlisted by the Government for an eco town in the Marston Vale by 2021. These would be over and above the huge developments being planned by the yet unpublished SE Regional Spatial Strategy (SE Plan) and the East of England Regio... |
| 01/05/2008 |
Archive Photo Gallery - a start has been made in uploading a substantial part of WSDS archive of the area. This is a work in progress. - BACKGROUND
Mr and Mrs Tagg, residents of Aspley Guise, and members of the society built, indexed and catalogued a substantial photographic and post card archive of the local area. A phenomenal piece of work, that was very much a part of their total commi... |
| 11/04/2008 |
Grimley's Report - for Aylesbury, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Mid Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes Council and MK Partnership - Messrs Grimleys report and supplementaty report April 20008 is now complete and can be found at
http://www.midbeds.gov.uk/Planning/LDF/Milton_Keynes_Expansion.aspx
It should be remembered that GVA Grimley were on instruction from Milton Keynes Part... |
| 01/04/2008 |
East of England Spatial Strategy News - Habitats Assessment and further Government changes - BACKGROUND:
Around 1997, the then Deputy Prime Minister, set up four un-elected Regional Assemblies to deliver a step change in house building in the South East. The East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) was one of these, covering the areas of Cambr... |
| 23/03/2008 |
Draft South East Plan – The Panel Report following the Examination in Public, was published in August 2007. Publication of South East Plan is delayed until July 2008 - BACKGROUND
It would perhaps be helpful to show the chronology of events, to demonstrate how determined the Government was and is, that MK should become one of the major growth areas to deliver the Governments drive for a step change in housing numbers ... |
| 18/03/2008 |
Wavendon Gateway Framework proposal and Planning Applications were refused at the meeting of MK Partnerships Planning Committee held on the 18th March 2008 - BACKGROUND
In June 2005, Messrs Gallagher Estates, Taylor Woodrow, and Berkeley Strategic held what was called a Community Planning Weekend for the local community of Wavendon to participate in their plans for the land south of the A421 at Glebe Farm ... |
| 12/03/2008 |
Greens Hotel Woburn Sands Application to convert and extend into 50 bed nursing home and 36 close care apartments. is refused by the Development Control Committee - BACKGROUND
Mr Menday purchased, for a nominal sum, the land, formerly owned by the Woburn Sands Sports and Social Club after the Club ran into financial problems, in the 1990’s. A planning application was made to MK Council to build Green’s Hotel on th... |
| 03/03/2008 |
A421 Improvement M1 Junction 13 to Bedford. A public enquiry which commenced on the 4th December into the Highways Agency scheme, was completed on 13th February 2008. The report is awaited. - BACKGROUND
Following public consultation from March to June 2004, and further studies, the Preferred Route Announcement for the proposed scheme, to dual the A421 east of the M1 and make substantial improvements to Junction 13, was published in December... |