What is the Bedford Development Framework?
The Bedford Development Framework (BDF) is a series documents
that sets out the spatial strategy for Bedford. A 'spatial
strategy' is one which takes into account social, economic and
environmental factors such as health and housing and which does not
purely focus on the regulation and control of land. As new BDF
documents are adopted by the council, their policies will
eventually replace those in the Bedford Borough Local Plan 2002.
The diagram shows the documents that normally make up the
development framework.
The adopted policies in the BDF (along with those in the Local
Plan 2002 that have yet to be replaced) form the basis for decision
making when planning applications are submitted to the council.
For more information on the various documents of the BDF and the
Local Plan 2002, visit the Documents
of the BDF page.