My response to this publication.
7.0 Movement.
7.18 verges.
7.20 drains
7.21 street lighting.
Fine words, but reality has not and continues to fail to match CBC .Officers response

ACCESSABILITY. COMPACT FORM OF DEVELOPMENT.
Laudable ideals, but once again fails to be evident in any development since the Planets Estate.
Sandhills Estate and the vast estates to the East of Leighton Buzzard are a bleak wasteland of houses, built so close together they lack green space, landscape or amenities.

The proposed sports centre seems to require the Tiddenfoot to be demolished, therefore forcing residents near the Town Centre and Linslade to travel by car towards the A5, in order to access the new replacement.
Are there plans in the pipeline to use Tiddenfoot Site to make improvements to Cedars School , or will it too become just another housing estate.

Community Facilities.
Access roads
Open landscape.

Once again laudable suggestions, BUT CBC HISTORY OF APATHY FOR ALL THINGS LEIGHTON -LINSLADE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE TEXT IN THIS DOCUMENT.

7.25 PEDESTRIAN GUARD RAILS.

THESE DO HAVE ADVANTAGES. examples:- at pedestrian crossings, preventing people jay walking diagonally across Pelican Crossings,,.and could provide protection on pathways through villages( eg. Great Billington where the only path is so narrow, the wing mirrors of large lorries overhang the footpath forcing residents into the hedgerow.

8.01Nature. No planning for green spaces east and south of LEIGHTON - LINSLADE . ANY POSSIBLE SPACE becomes yet another building site or even an extension to a quarry.

8.3 INTEGRATION OF DEVELOPMENT WITH THE LANDSCAPE. Once again this is yet another laudable ambition, however there is a lack of evidence that CBC place any weight to this in planning.

Since we are now surrounded by dozens of new developments, it is somewhat late in the day to begin yet again discussiion @ design and types of housing.
The hundreds of houses which circle and engulf the east and south of Leighton -Linslade demonstrate little interest or understanding of any of the statements in this latest Guideline.
CBC are gradually turning a "TOWN WITH MORE HISTORIC BUILDINGS THAN ANY OTHER IN BEDFORDSHIRE" into yet another wilderness of with row upon row of unimaginative houses and even damaging these still further by adding industrial units to complete the picture.
Even a child in primary school would not be expected to add industrial units to where they live,, but rather add trees and green spaces where they could run and play.
A once delightful market town has deteriorated in parts to an ugly unpleasant mess; with traffic chaos caused by the need to continually cross from one side of the town to the other. This chaos would be compounded still further if residents then had to drive across to to reach the planned new sports facility.
MOST WOULD NOT WISH TO NAVIGATE THE INADEQUATE BADLY DESIGNED BY - PASS WHICH WAS OUT OF DATE WHEN CONSTRUCTED. A BY PASS WITH TWO DESIGNATED LANES BETWEEN THE A5 AND THE A 505. WHERE IT MEETS A ROUNDBOUT. THIS ROUNDABOUT IS TOO SMALL FOR TWO LANE TRAFFIC, IS SITED ON A BEND WHICH LIMITS DRIVERS ABILITY TO SEE APPROACING VEHICLES.
To add to the by - pass misery and danger are the new exits from haphazard small developments ( with more soon to be added) from the by - pass to Chartmoor Road..

Frank Muir wrote a book about a dog , The title is " What a Mess!" This best describes reality v fiction!
Helen Thompson.
Chair of Billington Parish Council.