Allocations and Designations Plan
The Allocations & Designations Plan will allocate sites to
meet the Borough’s future development needs and designate areas of
land where specific policies will apply. It has to conform to the
approach set out in the Council’s Core
Strategy & Rural Issues Plan, in particular the broad
location for development and the core policies within it.
The timetable for the production of the
Allocations and Designations Plan is set out in the Local
Development Scheme.
Issues and Options
Draft Plan Consultation
A consultation took place on a draft
Allocations and Designations plan between 31 May and 19 July
2010
PLEASE NOTE THIS CONSULTATION IS NOW
CLOSED.
For information only, the consultation
documents can be viewed by using the links below.
Allocations and Designations consultation draft Plan
Allocations and Designations consultation draft Maps
Allocations and Designations consultation draft Background
Papers
The responses to this consultation are now being collated and
assessed. The comments will help inform the next draft of the Plan
(the Pre-Submission draft), which is scheduled to be published for
a futher six weeks' consultation between January and March 2011. It
is anticipated that the Plan will then be submitted to the
Secretary of State for approval in July 2011.
Earlier Stages
'Call for Sites'
A “Call for Sites” took place during July
and August 2008 where sites to be considered for potential
allocation were invited for submission.
In order to ensure that all possible sites were considered
from the outset, landowners, developers and other interested
parties were invited to propose sites for inclusion in the
Plan. All sites submitted to the Council for consideration as
development allocations are available below. Bedford and Kempston
are listed separately as are submissions for the Bedford River
Valley Park and the Forest of Marston Vale. The remainder are
grouped by Parish.
A methodology has been prepared to help with
the selection of sites for inclusion in the Allocations and
Designations Plan. This looks at whether the sites fit the spatial
strategy set out in the Core Strategy and Rural Issues Plan, do no
conflict with existing planning policies, are not technically
constrained or exceed the development requirements set out in
regional and sub-regional guidance. This methodology was prepared
following public consultation in order to appraise the relative
suitability of sites.
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Assessment Methodology
The Council has applied the Site Assessment Methodology to the
assessment of the submitted sites. The results of this are shown in
the background documents to the draft Plan.
NB the sites listed below by parish are those put forward to
the council for consideration as development sites. To see the
sites that the council has selected for consultation, please follow
the links above, to the draft Plan, maps and background documents.
The majority of the sites below are not in the draft Plan.
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Please note that many of the documents contained in the folders
listed below are large files which may take some time to open.
Index of
Sites 22 April 2010
Where additional information has been submitted in relation to
the originally proposed sites, this has been included with the
original information in the folders below.
Index of Sites
with Additional Information 01 April 2010
Review of Settlement Policy Areas
A review the Settlement Policy Areas, which
are currently defined in the Local Plan 2002, is taking place as
part of the Allocations and Designations Plan. A consultation was
held on a methodology for defining Settlement Policy Areas,
which was then reviewed in light of the comments received. A copy
of the consultation paper and the revised methodology can be
viewed below.
Settlement
Policy Area Methodology Consultation July 2008
Issues and Options Paper
Consultation on an Issues and Options
paper was the initial stage in the preparation of the
Allocations and Designations Plan. It enabled the Council to
involve the community at an early stage. A Sustainability Appraisal
accompanied this initial document.
View
Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report
View
Allocations and Designations Issues and Options Paper
View
Sustainability Appraisal of Issues and Options Consultation
Document
Responses to the consultations on these
documents are available below. As a result of this consultation,
the Site Selection Methodology were considered in detail, the
Methodology revised and then made available as part of the "Call
for Sites". The detail of the Council's consideration of those
comments can be found in the draft Plan background papers.
Sustainability Appraisal
In order to ensure that the Allocations and
Designations Plan contributes to the aims of sustainable
development, the Council is required to undertake a sustainability
appraisal of its policies and proposals. The purpose of the
sustainability appraisal is to promote sustainable development
through the integration of environmental, social and economic
considerations into the preparation of a DPD. A sustainability
appraisal has been undertaken at each stage of preparing the
Plan.