Recent and Planned Developments
Recent years have witnessed substantial development in Ampthill and the surrounding area. The Bedford Street area was substantially redeveloped in 2006/2007, with the demolition of a Shell petrol station, shopping arcade and small Budgens supermarket, to make way for a new Waitrose supermarket, an improved town car park and a development of shops and apartments known as Oxlet House. The supermarket opened on 29 September 2006, with Oxlet house being completed in late 2007.
The surrounding area will see two major new developments over the next couple of years. Firstly, NIRAH - the National Institute for Research into Aquatic Habitats - will be constructed in one of the old brick pits at nearby Stewartby, just North of Ampthill. The Stewartby brickworks ceased production in February 2008, putting an end to sulphurous smells which affected Marston Vale, and occasionally reached Ampthill and as far as Greenfield. Secondly, a new Center Parcs site will be constructed at Warren Wood to the West of Ampthill and should be completed by 2013.
The Bedfordshire Railway & Transport Association is campaigning for the reopening of Ampthill railway station which closed in 1959.
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