Land Rear Of Railway Cottages Ampthill Road Kempston Hardwick Bedfordshire MK45 3JG
Refused on 14 April 2026
Council decision: Refuse Permission
Proposal
Application for Permission in Principle for the erection of up to 6 Dwellings
- Received
- 10 December 2025
- Public comments
- 16
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Wixams & Wilstead
- ReceivedReceived10 Dec
- ValidatedValidated11 Dec
- Consult.Consultation30 Dec
- TargetTarget Date13 Apr
- DecidedDecided14 Apr
Decided in 124 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land Rear Of Railway Cottages Ampthill Road Kempston Hardwick Bedfordshire MK45 3JG. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 11 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Wixams & Wilstead. We hold 1,678 applications in total for the MK45 postcode area.
68% of outline 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
- MK45 3JG
- Application type
- Planning Permission in Principle
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Stewartby
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 30 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 15 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 30 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 15 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 April 2026
- Application expires
- 10 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Thistledown Barn Holcot Lane Sywell Northampton NN6 0BG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 61 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 16 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 30 December 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 27
- Constraints
- 6
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.
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.
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