• Proposals have been embedded within the local planning policy context with a draft allocation for growth secured in Central Bedfordshire Council’s emerging Local Plan.
  • Inspiration for Marston Valley comes from lessons learnt from the Garden City movement creating places that people are proud to live in.
  • Vision and strategy for a series of interlinked villages set within an outstanding landscape framework.
  • Each village will contain local scale shops, restaurants, cafés and other community and leisure uses and will complement what is already provided in nearby villages.
  • Employment opportunities will be embedded within the community hubs and from other uses including the schools, hotels, and shops.
  • Lakes are defining assets providing a perfect setting for creating special places opening up access to enable people to live, work and play while enjoying waterside views.
  • A new navigable section of the wider Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Park will link Brogborough and Stewartby Lakes.
  • Waterway channels will permeate development areas to provide an innovative and multifunctional SuDS network whilst providing a distinctive character.
  • Over 30% of the site area will deliver new tree cover to accord with Forest of Marston Vale, an establishing Community Forest, principles.
  • Sustainable public transport opportunities are at the heart of the scheme maximising pedestrian and cycle connectivity and linkages to East West Rail, the proposed Oxford to Cambridge Expressway and new bus connections within the local area.

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