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2 Grange Farm Cottages Sunderland Hill Ravensden Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2SJ

25/00089/LDECert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 16 May 2025

Council decision: Certificate Approved

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate to confirm the lawful erection of outbuilding as an Annex used in association with the main residential property (C3)

Received
15 January 2025
Ward
Renhold & Ravensden
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated21 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Feb
  4. Target11 Mar
  5. Decided16 May

Decided in 115 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 2 Grange Farm Cottages Sunderland Hill Ravensden Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2SJ. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 10 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 22 applications across Renhold & Ravensden. 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 2SJ
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ravensden

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 January 2025
Consultation expiry
19 February 2025
Consultation start
22 January 2025
Consultation end
19 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
22 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
19 February 2025
Target decision date
11 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Old Coalhouse 28A Rosamond Road Bedford MK40 3SS

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13690717
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.

Source: Bedford

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