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5 Fishers Close Great Barford Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3JL

25/02129/TCATree Conservation Area DeterminedApproved

Approved on 12 December 2025

Council decision: No Tree Preservation Order ServedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

G1 - Trees along the house of mixed species - Repollard back to previous points, trimming the front face of the shrubs but ensuring to retain the screening for privacy. Hazel and Sorbus - Hazel to coppice to approx 2m high, Sorbus to lightly reduce.

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Great Barford
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Dec
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 Fishers Close Great Barford Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3JL. Bedford has handled 326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Barford Green End conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Great Barford. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 postcode area.

98% of trees 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 3JL
Application type
Tree Conservation Area Determined
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Barford

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Target decision date
2 December 2025
Permission expires
12 December 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
40 Kimbolton Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 2NR

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14444427
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.

  • Conservation area: Great Barford Green End
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Source: Bedford

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