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Eaglesfield Farm Forty Foot Lane Souldrop Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1HB

09/00051/LDECert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 March 2009

Council decision: Certificate ApprovedCertificate of lawfulness

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

Proposal

Use of dwelling and curtilage without compliance with agricultural occupancy condition from Planning Permission 94/01208/FUL

Received
8 January 2009
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Sharnbrook
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Eaglesfield Farm Forty Foot Lane Souldrop Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1HB. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Sharnbrook. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 postcode area.

71% of amendment 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
MK44 1HB
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Knotting And Souldrop

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2009
Consultation expiry
5 February 2009
Consultation start
15 January 2009
Consultation end
5 February 2009
Target decision date
5 March 2009
Decision issued
14 May 2009
Permission expires
14 May 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Shakespeare House 42 Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8EP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Constraints
3

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.

Source: Bedford

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