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Railway Cottage Back Lane Souldrop Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1HQ

21/03095/FULFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 4 February 2022

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Single storey front and side extension

Received
25 November 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Z - Former Sharnbrook Ward
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.3 Jan
  4. Target13 Jan
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 71 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a side extension at Railway Cottage Back Lane Souldrop Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1HQ. Bedford has handled 604 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 3 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. 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 1HQ
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Knotting And Souldrop

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2021
Consultation expiry
3 January 2022
Consultation start
29 November 2021
Consultation end
3 January 2022
Target decision date
13 January 2022
Permission expires
4 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
PO Box 1643 Bedford MK425EJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 December 2021
Site notice end
3 January 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10426485
Documents
13
Constraints
2

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2010
    5 Nov

    Extension to existing annexe.

    ApprovedFull Planning10/02723/FUL

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