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Holmwood House High Street Turvey Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 8DE

25/02037/LDECert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 8 January 2026

Council decision: Certificate RefusedCertificate of lawfulness

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate to confirm existing use as residential garden land.

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Bromham
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 80 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Holmwood House High Street Turvey Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 8DE. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in the Turvey conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Bromham. We hold 421 applications in total for the MK43 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
MK43 8DE
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Turvey

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2025
Consultation expiry
9 December 2025
Consultation start
21 October 2025
Consultation end
9 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 November 2025
Target decision date
8 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 November 2025
Site notice end
9 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14407040
Comments
0
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Turvey
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 2, High StreetOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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
    16 Sep

    24/01671/LBC - Condition 2 - Materials (Discharge of Condition)

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions25/01843/AOC

Source: Bedford

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