The Old Boiler Barn High Street Riseley Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1BS
Approved on 12 December 2025
Council decision: Grant Permission
Proposal
Change of use from agricultural land to residential curtilage, construction of driveway, erection of fencing and associated hard and soft landscaping (development already carried out).
- Received
- 16 October 2025
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Riseley
- ReceivedReceived16 Oct
- ValidatedValidated16 Oct
- Consult.Consultation3 Dec
- TargetTarget Date4 Dec
- DecidedDecided12 Dec
Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at The Old Boiler Barn High Street Riseley Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1BS. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Riseley. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 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
- MK44 1BS
- Application type
- Retrospective planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Riseley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 21 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 21 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 4 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Kingsbrook House 7 Kingsway Bedford MK42 9BA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 49 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 27 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 19 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 12 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 3 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14413535
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
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.
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© 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.
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