3 And 4 Manor Farm Cottages Melchbourne Road Knotting Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1AE
Approved on 7 October 2015
Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Two storey rear extension, internal refurbishment including removal of one chimney stack and rendering all elevations.
- Received
- 10 August 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Sharnbrook
- ReceivedReceived10 Aug
- ValidatedValidated13 Aug
- Consult.Consultation22 Sep
- TargetTarget Date8 Oct
- DecidedDecided7 Oct
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a two storey rear extension at 3 And 4 Manor Farm Cottages Melchbourne Road Knotting Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1AE. Bedford has handled 605 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 9 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings 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.
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
- MK44 1AE
- Application type
- Full Planning
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Knotting And Souldrop
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 August 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 22 September 2015
- Consultation start
- 18 August 2015
- Consultation end
- 22 September 2015
- Neighbour consultation start
- 18 August 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 15 September 2015
- Target decision date
- 8 October 2015
- Permission expires
- 7 October 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 118 Bromham Road Bedford MK40 2QN
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 August 2015
- Advertisement expiry
- 11 September 2015
- Site notice start
- 18 August 2015
- Site notice end
- 15 September 2015
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-04409133
- Comments
- 0
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
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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