Famous last words

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Next Wednesday there will a presentation by Tom Ashley, Turnberry Planning Limited relating to 1 – 2 High Street, Cranfield, before the parish council meeting. 

The innocuously named "1 and 2" refer of course to two longstanding eye sores just as you enter the village from the south. These houses have been derelict for as long as I can remember and pleas to the university (the owner) to do something have always come to naught. At one point the PC offered to fund landscaping and tree screening if the uni wouldn't knock them down. 

Now they are to be demolished to make way for about 20 odd houses to be built as part of the site allocation programme. This is the same document that allocated 135 houses "and a school" to Central Motors at the other end of the village. 

Surely this housing development will be straightforward?  Famous last words