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Medbury Farm Cottage Medbury Lane Elstow Bedford Bedfordshire MK42 9YH

06/02013/AGRAgricultural DeterminationApproved

Approved on 31 August 2006

Council decision: No objectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Construction of farm access and track.

Received
4 August 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wilshamstead
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target29 Sep
  5. Decided31 Aug

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Medbury Farm Cottage Medbury Lane Elstow Bedford Bedfordshire MK42 9YH. Bedford has handled 68 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 3 weeks quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 885 applications in total for the MK42 postcode area.

83% of all 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 9YH
Application type
Agricultural Determination
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wilshamstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2006
Consultation expiry
8 September 2006
Consultation start
24 August 2006
Consultation end
8 September 2006
Target decision date
29 September 2006
Permission expires
31 August 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Arup Planning, Policy And Economics 13 Fitzroy Street London W1T 4BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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