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New Road Farm 8A Bedford Road Cople Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3TP

26/00660/TELLNTelecommunication licence notificationDecided
Prior approval

Decided on 24 April 2026

Council decision: Response Sent

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

Proposal

Removal and replacement of 3 No. antennas on new mounting brackets and support poles, the installation of 2No. equipment cabinets and associated ancillary works thereto. (Schedule 2, Part 16 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). The proposals contained herein constitute permitted development under Class A of Part 16.) This is a notification only to the Local Authority who have no determining powers.

Received
8 April 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 25 October 2026
Ward
Shortstown
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 16 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at New Road Farm 8A Bedford Road Cople Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 3TP. Bedford has handled 136 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Shortstown. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 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
MK44 3TP
Application type
Telecommunication licence notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cople

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 April 2026
Target decision date
29 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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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