Chapel Cottage Chapel Lane Colmworth Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2JY

11/02651/LDPCert of Lawful Development (proposed) DApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 January 2012

Council decision: Certificate ApprovedCertificate of lawfulness

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

Proposal

Use of premises as private car hire business.

Received: 16 December 2011
Decision level: Certificate of lawfulness
Council: Bedford Borough Council
Ward: Wyboston

ReceivedReceived16 Dec
ValidatedValidated16 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date10 Feb
DecidedDecided18 Jan

Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Chapel Cottage Chapel Lane Colmworth Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2JY. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 2 weeks quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Wyboston. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 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: MK44 2JY
Application type: Cert of Lawful Development (proposed) D
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Colmworth

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 December 2011
Target decision date: 10 February 2012
Permission expires: 18 January 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0

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.

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© 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.

Source: Bedford

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