108 - 112 Queens Drive Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 9BS
Refused on 23 January 2026
Council decision: Refuse Permission
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Proposal
Change of Use to Hot Food Takeaway within existing retail unit and intallation of extraction flue to rear.
- Received
- 2 July 2025
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Goldington
- ReceivedReceived2 Jul
- ValidatedValidated8 Aug
- Consult.Consultation10 Sep
- TargetTarget Date23 Jan
- DecidedDecided23 Jan
Decided in 168 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 108 - 112 Queens Drive Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 9BS. Bedford has handled 605 applications of this type. This one was decided in 205 days, 22 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Goldington. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 postcode area.
77% of full 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 9BS
- Application type
- Full Planning
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bedford Town
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 10 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 11 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 10 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 August 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 23 January 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 49 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 20 August 2025
- Site notice end
- 10 September 2025
Site constraints
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.
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