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Ashbourne 45 High Street Oakley Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 7RH

26/00896/TPOTree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 17 August 2026

Council decision: Grant Consent

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

Proposal

T1 - Red Oak - Carefully remove major deadwood throughout the crown to reduce risk and improve overall tree health. Lightly reduce selected areas of the crown where required to reshape and rebalance, whilst retaining as much live foliage as possible. Works to be undertaken with a sympathetic approach to maintain the tree's natural form and vitality.

Received
11 May 2026
Ward
Clapham & Oakley
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated11 May
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target29 Jun
  5. Decided17 Aug

Decided in 98 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ashbourne 45 High Street Oakley Bedford Bedfordshire MK43 7RH. Bedford has handled 326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 7 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Clapham & Oakley. We hold 425 applications in total for the MK43 postcode area.

98% of trees 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 7RH
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Oakley

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 May 2026
Consultation expiry
9 June 2026
Consultation start
12 May 2026
Consultation end
9 June 2026
Target decision date
29 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
9 Goldington Road Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 3JY

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14897537
Comments
0

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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