Chelveston Renewable Energy Park The Airfield Chelveston Wellingborough Northamptonshire NN9 6AR

25/00768/LPALocal Authority Consultation RequestApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 June 2026

Council decision: No objection

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

Proposal

(This application is not being determined by Bedford Borough Council. Please contact the Applicant for details or to make comments) To view plans go to www.northnorthants.gov.uk/papps Detailed planning application on Land at and Adjacent to Chelveston Renewable Energy Innovation Park for New access road for Chelveston Renewable Energy Park and Energy Innovation Park, including new roundabout and re-alignment of Higham Road and Caldecott Road, security building with shortterm parking, along with other associated works and landscaping.

Received: 20 March 2025
Public comments: 0 · last counted 29 October 2026
Council: Bedford Borough Council

ReceivedReceived20 Mar
ValidatedValidated8 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date19 Jun
DecidedDecided18 Jun

Decided in 436 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park The Airfield Chelveston Wellingborough Northamptonshire NN9 6AR. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 455 days, 58 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. We hold 753 applications in total for the NN9 postcode area.

69% 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: NN9 6AR
Application type: Local Authority Consultation Request
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Out Of Area Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 April 2025
Consultation start: 8 April 2025
Target decision date: 19 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Listed building: Grade II: Manor FarmhouseOn or next to this site
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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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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6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Bedford

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