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Real Bedford Football Club McMullen Park Meadow Lane Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3LW

24/02234/MAFMajor Full and Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 March 2025

Council decision: Grant Permission

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

Proposal

Two new 50 seat covered stands installed to the south-east of the pitch, installation of Two new turnstiles, with kiosks, at the entrance to the ground.

Received
22 November 2024
Ward
Kingsbrook
  1. Received22 Nov
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.7 Jan
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 113 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Real Bedford Football Club McMullen Park Meadow Lane Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3LW. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 11 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Kingsbrook. 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 3LW
Application type
Major Full and Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2024
Consultation expiry
7 January 2025
Consultation start
9 December 2024
Consultation end
7 January 2025
Neighbour consultation start
4 December 2024
Neighbour consultation end
1 January 2025
Target decision date
31 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
83 days

Publicity

Last advertised
9 December 2024
Advertisement expiry
1 January 2025
Site notice start
10 December 2024
Site notice end
7 January 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13585010
Comments
0
Documents
25
Constraints
2

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 3: High 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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