Toddington Village and its Neighbours all say no to Junction 12 Development

Toddington Residents Association

Toddington St George of England Church

Welcome to our Junction 12 Development page.

This page will offer our residents as much information about the proposed development as is currently available. Please read it carefully it DOES affect you!

An official planning application for this development has now been lodged. As expected the height of the stadium is 25 metres and there is a vast area of warehousing. It threatens to double the size of our village and in effect merge us with Harlington.

CAST need your help NOW. Please visit the CAST page on this website for more information on what you can do now.

Please, do NOT be complacent, this is a very real threat to our village. If Rosemound and Luton Town have their way a massive slice of our Green Belt will be lost forever. Not only that we will be overrun by lorries heading for the A5 from the massive 2.1 million square feet of warehousing which they are planning to fund the stadium for Luton Town. This is a very real threat. Please get involved with CAST now and help save your (and your childrens) village.

Please remember that if you have specific concerns or comments or are unable to attend the meeting you are able to post comments directly onto this web site HERE.


Junction 12 Proposed Development



	This proposal is a direct threat to Toddington as a village, and a community. This is not just a plan for a 20,000 seater football stadium. This stadium would be part of a substantial 200-acre commercial development - a development bigger than the village of Toddington itself, and all built on green belt land The green belt protects the village, its character and landscape and adds considerable value to life in Toddington. A development of this size would devalue our village in many ways. The developers Rosemound have now been taken over by Goodman Property Investors. They have a website which doesn’t show an awful lot of info on this development. www.goodmanintl.com One dramatic effect on village life of this development would be increased traffic. Some heavy lorries would go straight to or from the M1 at J12 but many would go through Toddington / Tebworth to the A5 / Dunstable and through Westoning to the East. All of these villages are already suffering from noise, pollution and dangers or heavy traffic - particularly HGV’s. Our neighbours in Harlington are opposing the development, concerned about destruction of the green belt and fear being overwhelmed by people using their station to visit the stadium for football matches and probably other uses, such as pop concerts. The deadline for our objections has now passed. To read the 54 Page Document sent to the planning department from CAST please Click Here.

		To build this development will take a simply huge number of vehicle movements of construction related traffic. Much of this will travel through Toddington on it’s way to meet the A5. Just imagine how much traffic will be increased to keep these massive warehouses operational, and we haven’t even started on the football stadium yet!




		Please take the time to view the above images to understand the impact such a development would have on our doorstep. You can click the image to view a larger image. To really study the actual site plan a huge image is available as a pdf file by clicking here. By viewing this larger image you are then able to actually read the proposed square feet of each of the industrial units.

	You will note that the total square footage of the warehousing totals in excess of 2.1 million! If you compare even the smallest of the units on the plan to the large area which forms the existing M1 service station it gives you some idea of actually how massive they are!

What you can do at this stage: Keep visiting this page (and the CAST page) for updates and ideas of how you can help at every stage of the campaign. Write to our MP Nadine Dorries, at House of Commons, London, Sw1A 0AA or via email to dorriesn@parliament.uk - if you need advice on what to write, outline letters will be appearing here very soon. Write Letters to the Editors of the Herald and Post and Bedfordshire on Sunday putting your view Get involved with CAST - We know people are busy but we would like as many people involved at whatever level of commitment they feel they can give. Contact campaign coordinator John Machin on 01525 635976 or email CAST directly here.

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