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25 Cotswold Close Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 9LR

25/01951/LDPCert of Lawful Development (proposed) DRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 December 2025

Council decision: Certificate RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate to confirm that the details submitted do not require planning permission (Alterations to existing front porch)

Received
2 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Goldington
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Jan
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 23 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a porch at 25 Cotswold Close Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 9LR. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 4 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. 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.

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 9LR
Application type
Cert of Lawful Development (proposed) D
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Target decision date
12 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14376082
Comments
0
Documents
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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