It's time to commemorate Lodge Road Road as we know it - or knew it. Widening work on the top half is now imminent and these views will be a thing of the past. Lodge Road was selected by the former Mid Beds Council as the entrance to Home Farm (There will be one into the Goodman land for about 30 houses) in response to public consultation which said villagers wanted the rural nature of the community preserved. It's anyone's guess how that is possible by making our quaintest rural thoroughfare suitable for several hundred car movements a day.
Extensive discussions with Mid Beds Planners, Highways and Persimmon in 2007 suggested that the entrance could be relocated to the High Street via the Goodman Charity land. But when Persimmon restarted the project in 2009 they said this was no longer possible and the entrance would remain through Lodge Road.
Nevertheless the company said the spine road could be built through the Goodman land and that would save some of the grief. Now we have been told, in the Parish Council, that since Persimmon haven't actually bought the Goodman land yet so they can't build the spine through it and everything will go down Lodge Road.
Have a walk down it this weekend because if the road signs are anything to go by the JCBs are coming on Monday.
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