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Oak Cottage 6 Church Road Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9EU

23/01575/LBCListed Building ConsentRefused

Refused on 12 September 2023

Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Demolition of rear conservatory, erection of a single storey rear extension, replacement French doors and windows, removal of shower room window and insertion of a roof window on the rear slope

Received
18 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Wootton & Kempston Rural
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.11 Sep
  4. Target7 Sep
  5. Decided12 Sep

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Oak Cottage 6 Church Road Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9EU. Bedford has handled 117 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Wootton & Kempston Rural. We hold 421 applications in total for the MK43 postcode area.

89% of heritage 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 9EU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wootton

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2023
Consultation expiry
11 September 2023
Consultation start
26 July 2023
Consultation end
11 September 2023
Neighbour consultation start
26 July 2023
Neighbour consultation end
23 August 2023
Target decision date
7 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7 Nursery Gardens Bradwell Village Milton Keynes MK13 9HU

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Last advertised
31 July 2023
Advertisement expiry
23 August 2023
Site notice start
14 August 2023
Site notice end
11 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12320163
Documents
9
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.

  • 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.

Source: Bedford

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