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40 Goldington Green Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 0AD

25/01636/LDPCert of Lawful Development (proposed) DRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 October 2025

Council decision: Certificate RefusedCertificate of lawfulness

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

Proposal

Certificate to confirm that the details submitted do not require planning permission (garage conversion to self-contained annexe)

Received
18 August 2025
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Goldington
  1. Received18 Aug
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Oct
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 58 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 40 Goldington Green Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 0AD. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 9 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Goldington. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 postcode area.

68% 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
MK41 0AD
Application type
Cert of Lawful Development (proposed) D
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2025
Target decision date
17 October 2025
Application expires
17 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
42 Chapel Lane Southill Biggleswade SG18 9HT

Planning decision

Statutory period
60 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14262474
Comments
0
Constraints
1

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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