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Section 13 Sub-Areas and Key Centres for Development and Change
13.80 The provisions for Bedfordshire in Policies H1 and E1 represent revisions to the Sub Regional Strategy. Some aspects of
the Sub Regional Strategy have ramifications beyond the growth locations, e.g. in relation to green infrastructure. It
includes policy on the review of Luton Green Belt. It sets the framework for growth at Milton Keynes to 2021 and allows
for some of its growth to extend into Aylesbury Vale and/or Mid Bedfordshire. The figures in Policy H1 for Mid Bedfordshire
do not, however, make provision for any such expansion of Milton Keynes.
13.81 Proposals for the growth of Milton Keynes to 2026 were considered at the Examination in Public of the review of the
Regional Spatial Strategy for the South East. The Panel recommended two urban extensions, one to the south east
extending into Mid Bedfordshire. The implications for Mid Bedfordshire should be tested through the further review of the
East of England RSS in the context of the Secretary of State’s decisions on the relevant recommendations of the South
East Regional Spatial Strategy Panel. The roll forward of the RSS should also give consideration to a compensatory
extension of the green belt in Mid Bedfordshire to the north of Luton and may allow the Milton Keynes South Midlands Sub
Regional Strategy and East of England Plan to be brought together.