Broadmead Lower School Park Crescent Stewartby Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9NN

18/03170/DC3District Council Reg 3Approved

Approved on 25 February 2019

Council decision: Grant PermissionPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Erection of single storey 5 classroom building with staff room and associated car parking.

Received: 14 December 2018
Decision level: Planning committee
Public comments: 9
Council: Bedford Borough Council
Ward: Wixams & Wilstead

ReceivedReceived14 Dec
ValidatedValidated19 Dec
Consult.Consultation21 Jan
TargetTarget Date1 Mar
DecidedDecided25 Feb

Decided in 68 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Broadmead Lower School Park Crescent Stewartby Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9NN. Bedford has handled 68 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There have been 12 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Wixams & Wilstead. We hold 420 applications in total for the MK43 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: MK43 9NN
Application type: District Council Reg 3
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Stewartby

Planning application dates

Date validated: 19 December 2018
Consultation expiry: 21 January 2019
Consultation start: 14 February 2019
Consultation end: 21 January 2019
Neighbour consultation start: 20 December 2018
Neighbour consultation end: 17 January 2019
Target decision date: 1 March 2019
Committee meeting: 25 February 2019
Decision issued: 1 March 2019
Application expires: 1 March 2019
Permission expires: 1 March 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 2nd Floor, City Gate West Tollhouse Hill Nottingham NG1 5AT

Planning decision

Statutory period: 72 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 24 December 2018
Site notice end: 21 January 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-07483666
Documents: 40
Constraints: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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.

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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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