Coldham Lodge Farm Swineshead Road Riseley Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1BT
Approved on 18 March 2026
Council decision: Grant Permission
Proposal
Change of Use from Agriculture to Dog Walking Field including parking area.
- Received
- 28 October 2025
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Riseley
- ReceivedReceived28 Oct
- ValidatedValidated6 Nov
- Consult.Consultation19 Dec
- TargetTarget Date18 Mar
- DecidedDecided18 Mar
Decided in 132 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Coldham Lodge Farm Swineshead Road Riseley Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1BT. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 13 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 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 1BT
- Application type
- Major Full and Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Riseley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 19 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 10 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 19 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 18 March 2026
- Application expires
- 25 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Unit 1 Highfield Road Oakley Beds MK43 7TA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 111 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 10 November 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 3 December 2025
- Site notice start
- 28 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 19 December 2025
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.
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.
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