Universal Great Britain - Speculation & Rumors

[xtpower]

Bedford Borough Council have released their response to the SDO - https://councillorsupport.bedford.gov.uk/documents/s77991/Item 03_AppendixE_Report.pdf

I've had a shallow read of it and the majority of it is them supporting the different facets of the project. There are requests for wording changes, but that's just changing 'may' to 'shall' which is the council wanting Universal to definitively do things the way they stated.

They do state there are valid concerns about traffic and it's impact, but there's no specifics about where and for which communities. Which feels like the council saying, 'we feel the mitigation efforts are suitable but there can still be concerns.'

They do ask for Universal to give thorough details of the education programs and what not but that's not really anything untoward.

In regards to construction worker accomodation, one officer recommended Universal build the accomodations. But the council would rather Bedford and the surrounding areas benefit instead as they feel Bedford can accomodate them as it is.

 

[EllieB]

An interesting read, thanks for sharing!

Out of interest, is it expected that all the application documents will remain available online at the end of the consultation period, or should we be downloading copies now if we still want to refer back to them later?