O/S 3 Cavendish Street Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 2HL

26/01084/TELLNTelecommunication licence notificationDecided

Prior approval

Decided on 6 July 2026

Council decision: Response Sent

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

Proposal

10m Light wooden pole (In accordance with Regulation 5 of the Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003 (as amended) and Class A Part 16 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)) This is a notification only to the Local Authority who have no determining powers.)

Received: 8 June 2026
Public comments: 0 · last counted 13 October 2026
Council: Bedford Borough Council
Ward: Harpur

ReceivedReceived8 Jun
ValidatedValidated8 Jun
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date29 Jun
DecidedDecided6 Jul

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at O/S 3 Cavendish Street Bedford Bedfordshire MK40 2HL. Bedford has handled 136 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Harpur. We hold 392 applications in total for the MK40 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: MK40 2HL
Application type: Telecommunication licence notification
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Bedford Town

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 June 2026
Target decision date: 29 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Bedford

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