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77 Farrer Street Kempston Bedford Bedfordshire MK42 8JD

25/01771/LDPCert of Lawful Development (proposed) DApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 October 2025

Council decision: Certificate ApprovedCertificate 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 (Loft conversion with a dormer to rear)

Received
8 September 2025
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Kempston Central & East
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 77 Farrer Street Kempston Bedford Bedfordshire MK42 8JD. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Kempston Central & East. We hold 885 applications in total for the MK42 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
MK42 8JD
Application type
Cert of Lawful Development (proposed) D
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kempston

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2025
Target decision date
27 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2nd Floor Suite 12 Church Square Leighton Buzzard LU7 1AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14298178
Comments
0
Documents
7

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    28 Oct

    Loft conversion with rear dormer

    ApprovedFull Planning25/02131/FUL

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