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62 & 62A Park Road West Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7SL

25/00302/CPNMAChange Use Class MA Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 April 2025

Council decision: Permit CPN subject to CILPrior Notification

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

Prior notification for development consisting of a change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from a use falling within Class E (commercial, business and service) of Schedule 2 to the Use Classes Order to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of Schedule 1 to that Order pursuant to Class MA, Part 3, Schedule 2 of GPDO.

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Prior Notification
Public comments
6
Ward
Harpur
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target2 Apr
  5. Decided4 Apr

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 62 & 62A Park Road West Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7SL. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Harpur. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 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
MK41 7SL
Application type
Change Use Class MA Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2025
Consultation expiry
19 March 2025
Consultation start
13 February 2025
Consultation end
19 March 2025
Target decision date
2 April 2025
Permission expires
4 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29 Newstead Way Bedford MK41 8RH

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 February 2025
Site notice end
19 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
9

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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