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Towers Health & Racquets Club Clapham Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 6EL

25/02411/ADVAdvertisementApproved
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Approved on 15 January 2026

Council decision: Grant ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of new externally illuminated freestanding entrance sign

Received
3 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Harpur
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.7 Jan
  4. Target21 Jan
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at Towers Health & Racquets Club Clapham Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 6EL. Bedford has handled 56 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Harpur. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 postcode area.

100% of advertising 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
MK41 6EL
Application type
Advertisement
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2025
Consultation expiry
7 January 2026
Consultation start
8 December 2025
Consultation end
7 January 2026
Neighbour consultation start
10 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
7 January 2026
Target decision date
21 January 2026
Permission expires
15 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3 High Street Stoke Goldington MK16 8NP

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 December 2025
Site notice end
6 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14481672
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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