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61 Garfield Street Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7RZ

26/00450/LDECert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 6 August 2026

Council decision: Certificate Refused

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

Proposal

Certificate to confirm existing lawful use as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO)

Received
9 March 2026
Public comments
1
Ward
Harpur
  1. Received9 Mar
  2. Validated16 Mar
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target4 May
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 143 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 61 Garfield Street Bedford Bedfordshire MK41 7RZ. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 150 days, 14 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Harpur. We hold 243 applications in total for the MK41 postcode area.

71% of amendment 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 7RZ
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 March 2026
Consultation expiry
22 April 2026
Consultation start
23 March 2026
Consultation end
22 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
25 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
22 April 2026
Target decision date
4 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14748031
Documents
38

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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