17 Duncombe Drive Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9RP
Refused on 26 May 2026
Council decision: Refuse Permission
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Proposal
Erection of garden walls and gates (development already carried out)
- Received
- 2 April 2026
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Wootton & Kempston Rural
- ReceivedReceived2 Apr
- ValidatedValidated2 Apr
- Consult.Consultation13 May
- TargetTarget Date21 May
- DecidedDecided26 May
Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 17 Duncombe Drive Wootton Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 9RP. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 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.
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
- MK43 9RP
- Application type
- Retrospective planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wootton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 April 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 13 May 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 April 2026
- Consultation end
- 13 May 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 April 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 May 2026
- Target decision date
- 21 May 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 67 Hopton Grove Newport Pagnell MK16 0DW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 49 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 15 April 2026
- Site notice end
- 13 May 2026
Site constraints
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.
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