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

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) REGULATIONS 2017

TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE) (ENGLAND) ORDER 2015

PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990

The following application for Planning Permission, Listed Building Consent and/or Conservation Area Consent has been received:

Planning Application No: CB/26/01392/OUT

Reason for Publicity:  Departure from Development Plan/Major Development/General Publicity/Accompanying Environmental Statement/Affects Public Right of Way

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

Proposed Development:  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.

You can view the application details and documents on our website (within 3 working days from the date of this Notice) by visiting http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/planning-register and entering the application number CB/26/01392/OUT into the search field.

Alternatively, you can view at Priory House Council Offices by appointment only with the Case Officer.

If you wish to make a comment on this application, please refer to our website ( http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/planning/view-comment/make-comment.aspx) in the first instance which provides clear guidance on submitting comments. Please submit your comment within 30 days of the date of this notice.

View and Comment on Planning Applications

Log onto the view planning applications section of our website www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/planningregister. and enter the application reference 26/01392 or;

You can use a computer at one of our libraries to view the details and make a comment

You can submit your comments online at: http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/planning-register. Enter the application reference CB/26/01392/OUT click the Application Number and scroll down to Public Representations.

All comments received (excluding personal details) are open to public viewed on request and therefore cannot be treated in confidence. Please refer to the Privacy Statement: http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/planning/privacy/statement.aspx

Members of the public may obtain paper copies of the plans and information from the Agent at a charge of electronic free of charge Hard copy of the £500 per copy as long as stocks last.

Planning and EIA Director, Lichfields, The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London EC3R 7AG, T 020 7837 4477 M 07961579203 E nicki.mableson@lichfields.uk Date: 16.06.26