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Published on Sunday 29 January 2012 16:00

MORE rural exception scheme housing developments could soon become reality.

Central Bedfordshire Council is seeking to aid development in rural locations where housing is needed for local residents by aiding and implementing 100 per cent rural exception schemes. The homes will go to local people who are being driven out of their communities by high property prices.

Councillor Ken Matthews, executive member for sustainable planning and economic development, said: “There has been an exodus of local people from rural communities up and down the country because of eye-watering levels of house prices.

“In Central Bedfordshire we are determined to keep our villages and hamlets stable and help local people live locally.”

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