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Path In Front Of 42 Gladstone Street Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7RR

26/00398/TELLNTelecommunication licence notificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 6 March 2026

Council decision: Response SentPrior Notification

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

In accordance with The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and restrictions) Regulations 2003 (as amended) - submission for 10m Light pole at the above location. (This is a notification only to the Local Authority who have no determining powers)

Received
27 February 2026
Decision level
Prior Notification
Ward
Harpur
  1. Received27 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 7 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Path In Front Of 42 Gladstone Street Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7RR. Bedford has handled 136 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 6 weeks quicker than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Harpur. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 postcode area.

91% of telecoms 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 7RR
Application type
Telecommunication licence notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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