Land At Interchange Retail Park Race Meadows Way Kempston Bedfordshire MK42 7AZ
Approved on 18 March 2026
Council decision: Grant Consent
Proposal
Installation of 5 internally illuminated totem signs
- Received
- 22 December 2025
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Kempston South
- ReceivedReceived22 Dec
- ValidatedValidated23 Dec
- Consult.Consultation16 Feb
- TargetTarget Date20 Mar
- DecidedDecided18 Mar
Decided in 85 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at Land At Interchange Retail Park Race Meadows Way Kempston Bedfordshire MK42 7AZ. Bedford has handled 56 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Kempston South. We hold 885 applications in total for the MK42 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
- MK42 7AZ
- Application type
- Advertisement
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Kempston
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 16 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 29 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 16 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 March 2026
- Application expires
- 13 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 33 Margaret Street London W1G 0JD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 80 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 January 2026
- Site notice end
- 16 February 2026
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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