Its seems like the Cranfield Children's Centre project was going ahead right up to 2 December when Central Beds called off a public meeting due to a snowfall. After that it concluded that it was time-out and the scheme was going elsewhere. Ms Lewis has mentioned budgetary constraints but clearly this move didn’t save any money – it just reallocated it at the last possible moment – to other projects waiting in the wings. I am extremely concerned that closeness to residential properties has been cited as an objection – especially as this had not got to the stage of a planning application. The centre would be on the school footprint and, as far as I know, nobody objects to the school.
Our village is already struggling to obtain many of the benefits promised from the Home Farm development – a health centre and proper playing space for the Lower School for instance. It lost funding for a purpose built pre-school several years ago and there are more public transport and mobile library cuts coming. Now a lot of work to establish valuable facilities for very young children, who would benefit greatly, has been lost. We seem to be going backwards. 
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