Policy information sourced from the Maulden Neighbourhood Plan

M1: Location of Development

  1. Residential development within the settlement envelope (as defined on the Policies Map) will be supported provided the following criteria are met: a. the development would not lead to the visual or physical coalescence of settlements, including settlement ends; and b. the development complies with the policies of this Neighbourhood Plan.
  2. Development proposals outside the settlement envelope will not be supported unless they are in accordance with the policies of the Local Plan for Central Bedfordshire, in respect of:
    • appropriate uses in the countryside or, where relevant, in the Green Belt; or
    • the development preserves or enhances the character or appearance of the area; or
    • the development brings redundant or vacant agricultural/farm buildings or historic buildings of heritage value back into beneficial use in a manner that does not cause harm in terms of additional traffic; or
    • it relates to necessary utilities infrastructure and where no reasonable alternative location is available; or
    • it is on sites allocated for those uses in the Development Plan for CBC or its successor.
    Such development must not individually or cumulatively result in physical and/or visual coalescence and loss of separate identity of Maulden from its neighbouring settlements, It must also retain the settlement ends and Important Countryside Gaps within the village, as shown on the Policies Map.
  3. Development proposals that use suitable brownfield land both within and beyond the settlement envelope of Maulden, for either homes and/or other identified needs, or to support appropriate opportunities to remediate despoiled, degraded, derelict, contaminated or unstable land will be particularly supported subject to their conformity with the polices within this Plan and the relevant Local Plan.
  4. In accordance with Policy HQ8 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan, proposals for the development of back-land sites are not supported where they are against the existing pattern of development and the character and appearance of the existing developments.

For more information, please visit the Maulden Neighbourhood Plan