Cotton End Neighbourhood Plan

The independent examination commenced on 5 December 2024 and the final Examiner’s report was received on 20 February 2025.

The referendum was held on 24 April 2025.

The plan was ‘made’ on 2 June 2025.

See the adopted version of the Cotton End Neighbourhood Development plan (PDF).

The consultation documents are available below (all documents are PDFs unless stated otherwise):

• Neighbourhood Development Plan
• Basic Conditions Statement
• Consultation Statement
• Habitats Regulations Assessment
• SEA screening document
• Equalities Statement
• Strategic Environmental Assessment 

Responses to submission consultation

• Regulation 16 consultation responses

Examination

• Inspector’s procedural matters and questions
• Cotton End Parish Council's response to Examiner matters and questions
• Bedford Borough Council's Response to Examiner's matters and questions 
• Final Examiner’s report
• Cotton End final decision statement

Referendum

• Information statement for Cotton End 
• Notice of Referendum for Cotton End
• Referendum version
• Declaration of Result of Poll for Cotton End