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The Bell 2 Westbourne Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 4LB

08/02245/FULFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 7 November 2008

Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from public house (A4) to 2 shop units (class A1) to include alterations to ground floor and installation of security roller shutters.

Received
12 September 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Queens Park
  1. Received12 Sep
  2. Validated12 Sep
  3. Consult.21 Oct
  4. Target7 Nov
  5. Decided7 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Bell 2 Westbourne Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 4LB. Bedford has handled 605 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Queens Park. We hold 392 applications in total for the MK40 postcode area.

77% of full 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
MK40 4LB
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 September 2008
Consultation expiry
21 October 2008
Consultation start
22 September 2008
Consultation end
21 October 2008
Neighbour consultation start
22 September 2008
Neighbour consultation end
13 October 2008
Target decision date
7 November 2008
Permission expires
7 November 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Portland Industrial Units Kingsway Luton Bedsfordshire LU4 8HA England

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 September 2008
Site notice end
21 October 2008

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-00519049
Comments
0
Documents
18
Constraints
1

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2009
    6 Aug

    Change of use of car parking area to hand car wash.

    RefusedChange of Use09/01477/COU

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