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New Farm Staughton Road Little Staughton Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2SX

23/01764/FULFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 31 October 2023

Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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Proposal

Erection of a detached storage building (Use Class B8) and associated works

Received
8 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
11
Ward
Wyboston
  1. Received8 Aug
  2. Validated5 Sep
  3. Consult.24 Oct
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided31 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at New Farm Staughton Road Little Staughton Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2SX. Bedford has handled 604 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 5 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Wyboston. 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 2SX
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Staughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 September 2023
Consultation expiry
24 October 2023
Consultation start
7 September 2023
Consultation end
24 October 2023
Target decision date
24 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bedford I-Lab Priory Business Park Stannard Way Bedford MK44 3RZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 September 2023
Advertisement expiry
4 October 2023
Site notice start
26 September 2023
Site notice end
24 October 2023

Appeal history

3343052
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 21 October 2024Dev Type: Minor general industry/storage/warehousingReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12374206
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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