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Land At Hill Farm, Between Mill Road, The A6 And Templars Way Sharnbrook Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1NP

25/02546/EIASCREnvironmental Screening RequestApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 January 2026

Council decision: EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion in respect of the development of up to 210 dwellings, a community healthcare hub, and associated open space and landscaping. (This is not the planning application for the development it is a screening opinion only under EIA regulations)

Received
23 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Sharnbrook
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.26 Jan
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Hill Farm, Between Mill Road, The A6 And Templars Way Sharnbrook Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1NP. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Sharnbrook. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 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
MK44 1NP
Application type
Environmental Screening Request
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
210
Parish
Sharnbrook

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2025
Consultation expiry
26 January 2026
Consultation start
5 January 2026
Consultation end
26 January 2026
Target decision date
30 January 2026
Application expires
30 January 2026
Permission expires
30 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Kingsbrook House 7 Kingsway Bedford MK42 9BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
38 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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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