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Land At Olympia House Manton Lane Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7PB

23/02292/S73ARetrospective planning permissionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 11 December 2023

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of light industrial storage building (development already carried out)

Received
18 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Harpur
  1. Received18 Oct
  2. Validated18 Oct
  3. Consult.30 Nov
  4. Target6 Dec
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land At Olympia House Manton Lane Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7PB. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Harpur. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 postcode area.

71% of amendment 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
MK41 7PB
Application type
Retrospective planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 October 2023
Consultation expiry
30 November 2023
Consultation start
18 October 2023
Consultation end
30 November 2023
Neighbour consultation start
2 November 2023
Neighbour consultation end
23 November 2023
Target decision date
6 December 2023
Permission expires
11 December 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29 Newstead Way Bedford MK41 8RH

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 November 2023
Site notice end
30 November 2023

Additional information

Documents
8
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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