GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Community Hub Vision
Riverside Meadow, Kempston
Welcome to our website for our exciting vision for Riverside Meadow: a new, not-for-profit community hub, secured through an enabling development of new homes and set in a new attractive landscape on land at Cemetery Road, Kempston.
These proposals are being promoted by Grace Community Church, a locally based Church deeply rooted in the Kempston community.
Please note that Grace Community Church in Kempston, Bedfordshire has no affiliation/connection with a church of a similar name in America. To avoid any misunderstanding, when searching for this website, please use this address www.graceinthecommunity.com Many thanks for your co-operation.
Illustrative visualisation of proposed community hub
The story so far
A planning application for a new Community Hub and Enabling housing development at Cemetery Road, Kempston was submitted to Bedford Borough Council on the 1st February 2024.
Grace would like to thank everyone who attended the consultation events in September and October 2021 and has engaged with us since, providing valuable local feedback.
While many who responded supported our vision, there were also a significant number who raised a range of concerns. This feedback has been analysed and has been influential in refining the proposals and adapting them to be more in line with your community aspirations.
Making you part of the conversation is important to us, so we have set out our response to the consultation feedback on the ‘You said, We did’ page of this website.
About Grace Community Church
Grace was established in Kempston in 1972 and has since grown to become a large, diverse and vibrant congregation of over 500 people who live in and are passionate about serving their local community.
In 2008, Grace relocated to our current meeting place at the Addison Centre in Kempston. Having outgrown this space, Grace now has a strategic vision to develop a new, not-for-profit community hub that enables us to expand our community outreach work.
Please see the tabs above to find out more about Grace’s existing work in the community, the proposals for Riverside Meadow, and how these proposals will help expand our existing community offering.
To find out more about Grace, go to www.graceinthecommunity.com
Please note that Grace Community Church in Kempston, Bedfordshire has no affiliation/connection with a church of a similar name in America. To avoid any misunderstanding, when searching for this website, please use this address www.graceinthecommunity.com
Many thanks for your co-operation.
“I’ve been in this type of work for 11 years and I’ve never seen a church who do so much for their community and people, it’s very beautiful to see and I want to thank you very much.”
— Social Services worker
