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Land To The Rear Of Ash House High Street Little Staughton Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2BH

24/00367/LDECert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 1 August 2024

Council decision: Certificate Approved

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

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate to confirm existing lawful use as garden land.

Received
23 February 2024
Public comments
1
Ward
Wyboston
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.5 Apr
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided1 Aug

Decided in 150 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land To The Rear Of Ash House High Street Little Staughton Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2BH. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 160 days, 16 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. 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.

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
MK44 2BH
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Staughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2024
Consultation expiry
5 April 2024
Consultation start
6 March 2024
Consultation end
5 April 2024
Neighbour consultation start
8 March 2024
Neighbour consultation end
5 April 2024
Target decision date
22 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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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