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Land At Marsh Leys Farm Woburn Road Kempston Bedfordshire MK43 9AA

25/01727/TELLNTelecommunication licence notificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 15 September 2025

Council decision: Response SentPrior Notification

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

Proposal

The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 - BT intends to install fixed line broadband electronic communications apparatus - installation of 2x 9m light pole (This is a notification only to the Local Authority who have no determining powers)

Received
1 September 2025
Decision level
Prior Notification
Ward
Wixams & Wilstead
  1. Received1 Sep
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Sep
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 14 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Land At Marsh Leys Farm Woburn Road Kempston Bedfordshire MK43 9AA. Bedford has handled 136 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 5 weeks quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Wixams & Wilstead. We hold 425 applications in total for the MK43 postcode area.

91% of telecoms 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
MK43 9AA
Application type
Telecommunication licence notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stewartby

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2025
Target decision date
22 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0

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.

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