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Little Barford Power Station Barford Road Little Barford St Neots PE19 6YE

19/02397/FULFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 13 January 2020

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retention of temporary building for use as a Visitors Centre/Education Centre associated with the Power Station operations.

Received
29 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Wyboston
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target17 Jan
  5. Decided13 Jan

Decided in 74 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Little Barford Power Station Barford Road Little Barford St Neots PE19 6YE. Bedford has handled 604 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 4 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in the Ashley conservation area, with 7 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 719 applications in total for the PE19 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
PE19 6YE
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Little Barford

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2019
Consultation expiry
12 December 2019
Consultation start
1 November 2019
Consultation end
12 December 2019
Target decision date
17 January 2020
Application expires
17 January 2020
Permission expires
13 January 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
78 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 November 2019
Site notice end
12 December 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08107372
Documents
14
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.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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