Interchange Retail Park 3 Polo Field Way Kempston Bedfordshire MK42 7AZ
Proposal
Erection of 5110sqm Class A1 Non Food Retail Floorspace, 1858sqm Class B2 Industrial use, Public House/Family Restaurant and Ancillary works, including variation of condition 1 attached to 04/02245/S73 (which replaced 98/01628/OUT) to allow for to removal of restrictions on alteration to the disposition of the floorspace of Units 1 and 2 and to facilitate minor landscaping works, and condition 2 to bring the goods restriction in line with that imposed on Units 3-5.
- Received
- 28 March 2025
- Decision due
- 19 June 2025
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Kempston South
- ReceivedReceived28 Mar
- ValidatedValidated28 Mar
- Consult.Consultation7 May
- TargetTarget Date19 Jun
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is an application to vary a condition at Interchange Retail Park 3 Polo Field Way Kempston Bedfordshire MK42 7AZ. Bedford has handled 910 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 28 March 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Kempston South. We hold 885 applications in total for the MK42 postcode area.
87% of conditions 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
- MK42 7AZ
- Application type
- Major S73 Variation of Condition
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Kempston
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 7 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 31 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 28 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 7 Soho Square London W1D 3QB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 83 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 7 April 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 30 April 2025
- Site notice start
- 9 April 2025
- Site notice end
- 7 May 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13903214
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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© 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.
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