48 High Street Wilden Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2QD
Refused on 10 February 2026
Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Erection of new self-build dwelling with detached garage and associated works
- Received
- 28 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 19
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Great Barford
- ReceivedReceived28 Nov
- ValidatedValidated28 Nov
- Consult.Consultation16 Jan
- TargetTarget Date13 Feb
- DecidedDecided10 Feb
Decided in 74 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 48 High Street Wilden Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 2QD. Bedford has handled 605 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 4 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Great Barford. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 postcode area.
77% of full 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 2QD
- Application type
- Full Planning
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Wilden
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 16 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 4 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 16 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 3 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 31 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 February 2026
- Application expires
- 13 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 4 Clarendon Street Bedford MK41 7SJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 77 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 8 December 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 31 December 2025
- Site notice start
- 5 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 26 December 2025
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14465499
- Documents
- 38
- Constraints
- 5
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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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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Bedford
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