Helping to Make Bedford Borough Council Greener
As part of the Liberal Democrat's commitment to reducing the Council's carbon footprint by an aspirational 40% by 2015, Bedford Borough Council has again been supporting Green Office Week.
As part of the Liberal Democrat's commitment to reducing the Council's carbon footprint by an aspirational 40% by 2015, Bedford Borough Council has again been supporting Green Office Week.
Local Lib Dem councillors David Sawyer and Henry Vann have been busy collecting signatures for a petition for Kimbolton Road to be resurfaced, and the Council has responded quickly and announced that the section of Kimbolton Road in De Parys ward will be resurfaced later in the summer. This is part of a series of major road resurfacing programmes that start in Bedford Borough later this month, covering a total of 38 roads as part of the Council's continuing commitment to investing in and improving the road network in Bedford Borough.
The annual Riseley Spring Clean again attracted villagers of all ages to help improve their local area on Saturday 12th May.
I have long campaigned with colleagues for the delivery of an East West Rail line between Bedford and Oxford to the West and Bedford to Cambridge (and beyond) to the East. Re-opening these links to major centres such as Oxford and Cambridge and to main lines to the east and west would provide a tremendous boost for our local economy, helping to attract investment and support jobs and growth. I was therefore delighted last autumn when the Government announced its commitment to deliver the Western section of the East-West Railway, between Bedford and Oxford and Bedford and Aylesbury.
In order to ensure the best and most effective services are delivered through Children's Centres over the coming years, Bedford Borough Council is currently seeking views on the future of the services through a consultation that will run until Friday 27 July 2012.