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23 Coventry Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 4EQ

24/00509/LDPCert of Lawful Development (proposed) DRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 3 May 2024

Council decision: Certificate RefusedCertificate of lawfulness

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate to confirm that the details submitted do not require planning permission (Upgrading of external wall materials).

Received
11 March 2024
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Queens Park
  1. Received11 Mar
  2. Validated11 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided3 May

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at 23 Coventry Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 4EQ. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Queens Park. We hold 392 applications in total for the MK40 postcode area.

68% of outline 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
MK40 4EQ
Application type
Cert of Lawful Development (proposed) D
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 March 2024
Target decision date
29 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Abbey Court Fraser Road Priory Business Park Bedford MK44 3WH

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12848720
Comments
0
Documents
12

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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