PROTECTING OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE

I was brought up on a farm and I have lived in the countryside all my life. We should protect our countryside, the natural environment, and prime agricultural land. That's why I am campaigning for the right homes in the right places for the next generation, prioritising family homes on brownfield land, fast tracking development in cities not paving over the countryside, and protecting our green spaces.

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View from Gravenhurst towards the proposed development

Stop the Greenwoods New Town development at Lower Gravenhurst

A huge development site covering over 700 acres has been proposed by developers, reaching across the Green Belt north of Barton-Le-Clay to Wrest Park and to Lower Gravenhurst.

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Blake Stephenson MP Expresses Housing Concern In Response To Government's National Planning Policy Framework Consultation

Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

Mid Bedfordshire MP Blake Stephenson has expressed his concern over the Labour Government's plans for housing in his response to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) consultation.The Government launched a consultation on changes to the NPPF in July and during a question to Deputy Prime Mini

Blake Stephenson's response to the Central Bedfordshire Council Local Plan consultation

Blake Stephenson MP Submits Response To Central Bedfordshire Council Local Plan Consultation And Encourages Others To Do The Same

Wednesday, 18 September, 2024

Mid Bedfordshire MP Blake Stephenson has submitted his response to the Central Bedfordshire Council Local Plan consultation and is encouraging others to do the same before next week's deadline.Local Plans set out a vision and a plan for the future needs of an area, including housing, facilities, gre

Blake Stephenson MP asking a question in the House of Commons

Blake Stephenson MP Calls On Labour To Reintroduce 'Beauty' As Housebuilding Objective

Monday, 2 September, 2024

Mid Bedfordshire MP Blake Stephenson has called on the Labour Government to reinstate 'beauty' as a housebuilding objective in the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The last Government had introduced a focus on 'beauty' and 'beautiful' housebuilding in its updated NPPF in January t

Blake's Spring-Summer Ward Update

Saturday, 7 October, 2023

I report regularly to our Parish Councils, and this is a brief Spring-Summer Ward Update on elections, planning, schools, highways and grants ... Straight after the local elections I was appointed by Full Council to serve Central Bedfordshire as: Vice Chair of Sustainable Communities Oversight &

Blake welcomes CBC appeal win against 100 High Street, Meppershall

Friday, 18 August, 2023

I'm pleased that on 18 August 2023, CBC won its appeal against the proposed development of 23 dwellings at 100 High Street in Meppershall. Local residents and the Parish Council have worked hard to resist this inappropriate development, which has resulted in a very welcome common sense outcom

Further Objection to Gravenhurst Development to the West of Barton Road

Friday, 28 April, 2023

In support of residents in Gravenhurst and surrounding villages, Blake has filed an objection to application CB/23/00941/OUT (following a prior objection to CB/22/03378/OUT). Gravenhurst’s Neighbourhood Plan is a shared vision of the village, and it identifies the site of the Proposed Development a