Euan Duncan

Progress over talks to set up a community health hub in Biggleswade have been criticised for being too slow.

A specialist role to give a voice to youngsters with special educational needs is being created on a Central Bedfordshire Council children’s committee.

A planning inspector has written to Central Bedfordshire Council for a second time over shortcomings with its proposed Local Plan.

Plans for large-scale future housing growth in parts of Central Bedfordshire have not been shelved and are set to remain in the Local Plan for the area, it has been revealed.

A group being set up to help councils co-ordinate economic growth in the Oxford-Cambridge corridor, including Bedfordshire, has been labelled a quango and compared to the ill-fated regional assemblies.

A debt of £3 million has been run up by a firm managing Central Bedfordshire’s legal affairs.

A crackdown on housing fraud is underway in Central Bedfordshire.

An increase in the amount of money it can borrow could enable Central Bedfordshire Council to provide more affordable housing.

A scheme to create a housing development company in Central Bedfordshire is likely to go straight to the council’s executive to rule on because a report about it needed rewriting.

A quarry expansion plan at Potton has the backing of the town council, subject to several conditions including no extra traffic to and from the site.