PLN/2026/1229

Description

Consultation from Central Bedfordshire Council on application ref. CB/26/01392/OUT for the Hybrid Planning Application (Environmental Impact Assessment application) comprising: Part A – Full planning permission for 2 wind turbines with associated accesses, repowering through the life extension of the existing 'Double Arches' and 'Checkley Wood' wind turbines, solar arrays; and associated infrastructure; provision of a roundabout and junction amendments between the A5 (Watling Street) and Eastern Way; new access and road from Shenley Hill Road; new roundabout, revised junctions, accesses and improvements along Mile Tree Road; new roundabout and access to the north of Eastern Way. Part B - Outline planning permission for a mixed-use scheme including up to 3,600 residential units (including affordable housing and specialist accommodation for older people); new employment and industrial floorspace and ancillary facilities; community infrastructure (including Narrow Gauge Railway terminus and museum); education facilities (including a secondary school and primary schools); healthcare provision; local centre uses (to include retail, community and employment uses); sports hubs (including sports provision); green infrastructure and landscaping works (to include a country park, formal and informal open space, amenity space, woodland and ecological areas); electrical vehicle charging facilities; transport mobility hubs; drainage works (including foul and surface water drainage infrastructure); vehicular and active travel infrastructure; ground remodelling, engineering and demolition works. All matters reserved save for principal points of access. The development is submitted as a phased and severable scheme, and each component of the development is capable of being delivered independently

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Eastern Way Quarries, Land to the North and South of Eastern Way, Heath and Reach