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Merry Meet Cottage Sandye Lane Swineshead Bedford MK44 2AE

25/00869/TCATree Conservation Area DeterminedApproved

Approved on 2 June 2025

Council decision: No Tree Preservation Order ServedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

line of leylandii - to be taken back inside the wall line and ivy or other climber planted to cover any brown patches

Received
27 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Riseley
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Jun
  5. Decided2 Jun

Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Merry Meet Cottage Sandye Lane Swineshead Bedford MK44 2AE. Bedford has handled 326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in the Swineshead conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Riseley. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 postcode area.

98% of trees 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 2AE
Application type
Tree Conservation Area Determined
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swineshead

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2025
Target decision date
4 June 2025
Permission expires
2 June 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13974703
Comments
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Swineshead
  • 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, 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

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© 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.

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