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30 Summerfield Drive Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9FE

25/02552/LDPCert of Lawful Development (proposed) DRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 February 2026

Council decision: Certificate RefusedCertificate of lawfulness

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

Proposal

Certificate to confirm that the details submitted do not require planning permission (Single storey side extension)

Received
23 December 2025
Decision level
Certificate of lawfulness
Ward
Wootton & Kempston Rural
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated24 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Feb
  5. Decided16 Feb

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey side extension at 30 Summerfield Drive Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9FE. Bedford has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Wootton & Kempston Rural. We hold 421 applications in total for the MK43 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
MK43 9FE
Application type
Cert of Lawful Development (proposed) D
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wootton

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 December 2025
Target decision date
11 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Office 2, Floor 2 1 Bedford Street Ampthill MK45 2LU

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14587784
Comments
0
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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