The Bungalow 65 Cause End Road Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9DE
Approved on 22 December 2025
Council decision: Grant ConsentDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1 Himalayan Birch - Tip reduce away from property providing up to two meters clearance, reducing by 1-2 meters, Reduce over the roadside to lift crown, removing any repeatedly hit branches back to source. Tip reduce Lateral growth to the North and South to balance crown with other cut back works. Reduce by a maximum of 1 meter. Lift the crown to display the crown brake, removing any epicormic growth. Lifting to a height of a maximum of three metres from ground level.
- Received
- 31 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Wootton & Kempston Rural
- ReceivedReceived31 Oct
- ValidatedValidated31 Oct
- Consult.Consultation19 Dec
- TargetTarget Date19 Dec
- DecidedDecided22 Dec
Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Bungalow 65 Cause End Road Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9DE. Bedford has handled 326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Wootton & Kempston Rural. We hold 425 applications in total for the MK43 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
- MK43 9DE
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wootton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 31 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 19 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 3 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 19 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 19 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 22 December 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Oak Farm Bedford Road Northill Beds SG18 9AW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 49 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 21 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 19 December 2025
Site constraints
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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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