While canvassing on Kings Reach I met Phil Button who has been campaigning tirelessly for improved accessibility on the Kings Reach estate. The issues he raises don’t only impact on those with mobility issues, but also anyone with a pushchair or sight problems. There are a number of streets, such as Maunder Avenue, where there is simply no pavement and I found myself walking in the road for fear of upsetting any householders (I wasn’t sure if it was part of their front garden!) but I can easily see how it would become a rutted and a trip hazard in the summer and a muddy quagmire in the winter. If…
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Have you heard about CBC plans for a ‘Biggleswade Healthcare Hub’?
Biggleswade residents often mention to me that poor access to healthcare is a major, growing, issue in the town. CBC acknowledge this saying ‘Currently the provision of health and social care across central beds is fragmented, of variable quality, uneven access to good care and the supporting range of health and social care options available to people’. CBC recognise that if they fail to ‘reconfigure health and care services in anticipation of demand it will put a significant pressure on already vulnerable hospital services and fundamentally undermine the quality of care provision’. So what’s their plan? The population of central Bedfordshire is currently 278,900 but CBC predict it will rise…