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The Barn 28 Bedford Road Roxton Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3DX

25/01500/LDECert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 16 December 2025

Council decision: Certificate ApprovedCertificate of lawfulness

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

Proposal

Certificate to confirm lawful existing use of room for Air BnB let on an ad-hoc basis.

Received
30 July 2025
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Wyboston
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.12 Sep
  4. Target30 Sep
  5. Decided16 Dec

Decided in 126 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Barn 28 Bedford Road Roxton Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3DX. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 13 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Wyboston. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 postcode area.

71% of amendment 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 3DX
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Roxton

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2025
Consultation expiry
12 September 2025
Consultation start
15 August 2025
Consultation end
12 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
15 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end
12 September 2025
Target decision date
30 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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