Bedfordshire, Linslade/ Leighton Buzzard/Dunstable - Temporary Prohibition of Traffic, to allow for various works to take place.

Central Bedfordshire

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 -

SECTION 14(1)

CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL

(LEOPOLD ROAD, LINSLADE

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) ORDER 2025

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Central Bedfordshire Council intends not less than seven days from the date of this Notice to make an Order the effect of which will be to prohibit any vehicle, except a vehicle being used for fire, police or ambulance purposes in an emergency, from proceeding along the full length of Leopold Road, Linslade.

This temporary closure is required to enable gully works to take place and shall apply to such extent as may from time to time be indicated by the appropriate traffic signs. Where possible access will be maintained to property and premises but may be restricted from time to time according to local signing.

It is expected that the works will take place from

3 to 7 March 2025 between the hours of 9am and 3:30pm. The road will be closed at all times during this period.

The alternative route for this closure is via Springfield Road, Soulbury Road and vice versa.

The Order will come into operation on 3 March 2025 for a period of eighteen months or until the proposed works have been completed, as detailed above, whichever is the earlier.

For further information please contact Highways Helpdesk – 0300 300 8049.

CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL

(HOCKLIFFE ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD)

(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) ORDER 2025

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Central Bedfordshire Council has made an Order the effect of which will be to prohibit any vehicle, except a vehicle being used for fire, police or ambulance purposes in an emergency, from proceeding along the length of Hockliffe Road, Leighton Buzzard 20 metres either side of Light Railway Crossing.

This temporary closure is required to enable level crossing replacement works to take place and shall apply to such extent as may from time to time be indicated by the appropriate traffic signs. Where possible access will be maintained to property and premises but may be restricted from time to time according to local signing.

It is expected that the works will take place from 17 February 2025 to 17 March 2025. The road will be closed at all times during this period.

The alternative route for this closure is via A4012, A5, A505, A4146, A4012 and vice versa.

The Order will come into operation on 17 February 2025 for a period of eighteen months or until the proposed works have been completed, as detailed above, whichever is the earlier.

For further information please contact M Leary Plant - 07879631249.

CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL

PROPOSES TO INTRODUCE

A 20MPH SPEED LIMIT ON VANDYKE ROAD AND NEAL CRESCENT, LEIGHTON BUZZARD

Reason for proposal: The speed limit is intended to reduce the speed of traffic entering and leaving the newly built-up area and is being proposed in combination with other Highway modifications as part of a Section 278.

Effect of the Order:

To introduce a 20mph Speed Limit on the following lengths of road in Leighton Buzzard:-

1. Vandyke Road, from a point approximately 39 metres northeast of Vandyke Road Spur and extending in an easterly direction for approximately 115 metres.

2. Neal Crescent, for its full length.

Details may also be viewed online at www.centralbedfordshire. gov.uk/publicstatutorynotices.

Comments should be sent by e-mail to highways. consultation@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk by 04 March 2025. Any objections must state the grounds on which they are made and must quote unique reference number A00507. If you want to send in your comments in writing please send them to the address shown below FAO Emily Hirst.

Please note that any comments received will be redacted of personal information and uploaded onto the Central Bedfordshire Council website as part of a report on the scheme a few days before the proposal is discussed at the relevant Traffic Management Meeting, where it will remain in the public domain. If you do not wish for your comments to be part of the report please state this explicitly within your response.

Order Title: If made will be “Central Bedfordshire Council (Vandyke Road and Neal Crescent Leighton Buzzard)

(20mph Speed Limit Order) 202*”

CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL –

NOTICE OF MAKING

CASHLESS PAYMENTS

On 4th February 2025 Central Bedfordshire Council made the below named Traffic

Regulation Order which has the effect as follows:-

To replace payment via coin/s with cashless payments

only at various locations as follows:

Off Street Locations

• Ashton Square, Dunstable

• Duncombe Drive, Leighton Buzzard

• Matthew Street, Dunstable

• St Marys Gate, Dunstable

• Priory Gardens, Dunstable

• Regent Street, Dunstable

• Hockliffe Street, Leighton Buzzard

• Grove Park, Dunstable (Including both Grove Bowling and Grove View Car Parks)

• Multi Storey, West Street, Leighton Buzzard

• Steppingley Road, Flitwick

On Street Locations

• High Street North, Dunstable

Order Title:- Central Bedfordshire Council (Off Street Parking Places 2011) (Variation) Order 2025 Date of Operation:- The Order will come into operation on the 24th February 2025.

Details will be provided on request by e-mailing highways. consultation@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk.

High Court Challenge:- Any person who desires to question the validity of the Order or of any provision contained therein on the ground that it is not within the powers of the relevant Section of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or on the ground that any requirement of that Section had not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within six weeks of 4th February 2024, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL (HEATH AND REACH: PART OF FOOTPATH NO. 1) PUBLIC PATH DIVERSION ORDER 2025

The above Order was made on 7 February 2025 under Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. The effect of the Order will be to divert part of the public footpath and create an alternative footpath instead.

The length of Footpath No. 1, Heath and Reach to be diverted extends from its junction with an unaffected part of Footpath No. 1, Heath and Reach at Ordnance Survey Grid Reference (OS GR) SP 9317 2869 in a generally west-southwesterly direction for approximately 677 metres to terminate at OS GR SP 9257 2843.

The footpath is stopped up across its full width.

The length of Footpath No. 1, Heath and Reach to be created extends from its junction with an unaffected part of Footpath No. 1, Heath and Reach at Ordnance Survey Grid Reference (OS GR) SP 9317 2869 in a northerly direction for approximately 198 metres to its junction with Bryants Lane at OS GR SP 9316 2889 then continues in a generally westerly direction for approximately 572 metres to terminate at its junction with Bryants Lane at OS GR SP 9262 2877. The new route of the footpath has a width of 2 metres.

A copy of the Order and the Order map have been placed and may be seen free of charge at the offices of Central Bedfordshire Council Highways, Priory House, Monks Walk, Chicksands, Shefford. Any inspection will be by appointment only, please contact definitivemap@ centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or 0300 300 6530 to arrange an appointment. A copy of the Order, the Order map and an explanatory statement are available to view and download for free at  https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov. uk/info/82/countryside/424/definitive_map/3. Paper copies of the Order and map may be bought at a charge of £4.00 Any representations about or objections relating to the Order may be sent or delivered in writing to the Highway Assets Intelligence Team Leader, Central Bedfordshire Council Highways, Priory House, Monks Walk, Chicksands, Shefford SG17 5TQ or definitivemap@ centralbedfordshire.gov.uk not later than 18 March 2025. Please state the grounds on which they are made. Representations and objections must include either a postal or e-mail address. Any representations or objections made will be in the public domain and will be available for viewing/copying by members of the public.

If no such representations or objections are duly made, or if any so made are withdrawn, Central Bedfordshire Council may itself confirm the Order as an unopposed Order. If the Order is sent to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for confirmation any representations and objections which have not been withdrawn will be sent with the Order and will be made publicly available by either the Council or the Planning Inspectorate. Dated 11 February 2025

Priory House, Monks Walk                Gary Powell

Chicksands, Shefford Assistant Director, Highways

SG17 5QT