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Wixams New Settlement new settlement is 3 miles (5km) south of Bedford and covers an area of approximately 384 hectares. Based upon the site of the former Elstow Storage Depot it will eventually establish a community of around 10,000 people with the potential to expand to around 15,000. It will represent the single largest development in the county and straddles the border between Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire.
Wixams will include a town centre and several “villages” with 4500 homes, 25 per cent of which will be affordable homes, employment land, schools, shops, generous landscaping and recreational space such as sports pitches and allotments and community buildings. The streets will be designed with safety in mind and to facilitate ease of movement using public transport, cycles and walking. Planning permission has recently been approved for the new rail station located on the western edge of the Wixams development which will provide links with Bedford and Central London stations once completed.
For useful links and documents please see below: -
Elstow New Settlement Planning and Development Brief 1999 (5.4mb)
Village One Design Brief - Vision and Design Brief (part 1)
Village One Design Brief - Design Code (part 2)
Village One Design Brief - Area Code (part 3)
Village One Design Brief - Implementation (part 4)
Village One Design Brief - Appendix (part 5)
Wixams S106 Legal Agreement part 1
Wixams S106 Legal Agreement part 2
Wixams - variation of original S106 (11/00340/MAR dated 23 Nov 2011)
Wixams - variation of original S106 (11/01380/M73 dated 27 Jun 2012)
Village Two Design Brief and Code - October 2015
Village Four Design Brief and Code - October 2015
Wixams Website*
http://www.thewixams.co.uk/
Tel No: (01234) 718068
* Please note the Council is not responsible for the accuracy and content of third-party web-sites.