The Old Saddlery College Street Kempston Bedfordshire MK42 8LU

06/00455/REMApproval of Reserved MattersApproved

Reserved matters

Approved on 3 April 2006

Council decision: Grant PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demollition of industrial units, erection of 30 x 2 bedroomed flats - Reserved matters pursuant to planning permission 05/01164/S73 (landscaping, design and external appearance).

Received: 22 February 2006
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: Bedford Borough Council
Ward: Kempston Central And East

ReceivedReceived22 Feb
ValidatedValidated22 Feb
Consult.Consultation26 Apr
TargetTarget Date19 Apr
DecidedDecided3 Apr

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at The Old Saddlery College Street Kempston Bedfordshire MK42 8LU. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. There have been 8 other applications at this address. We hold 885 applications in total for the MK42 postcode area.

68% of outline applications at Bedford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: MK42 8LU
Application type: Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Kempston

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 February 2006
Consultation expiry: 26 April 2006
Consultation start: 23 February 2006
Consultation end: 26 April 2006
Neighbour consultation start: 5 April 2006
Neighbour consultation end: 26 April 2006
Target decision date: 19 April 2006
Committee meeting: 3 April 2006
Decision issued: 4 April 2006
Permission expires: 4 April 2008

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 33A St Peters Street Bedford MK40 2PN

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 10 March 2006
Advertisement expiry: 31 March 2006
Site notice start: 6 March 2006
Site notice end: 27 March 2006

Additional information

Comments: 0

Site constraints

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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