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Station Cottage, Shefford Road, Southill, Biggleswade, SG18 9LP

CB/16/05047/LDCELawful Development Cert - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 23 December 2016

Council decision: Lawful Dev - Existing - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Existing: use of land as garden land and curtilage of Southill Station Cottage

Received
31 October 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.23 Nov
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Station Cottage, Shefford Road, Southill, Biggleswade, SG18 9LP. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 1,018 applications in total for the SG18 postcode area.

86% of amendment applications at Central Bedfordshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SG18 9LP
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southill

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2016
Consultation expiry
23 November 2016
Consultation start
31 October 2016
Consultation end
23 November 2016
Target decision date
23 December 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
53 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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2022
    26 Apr

    Variation of condition number 3 of planning permission CB/17/03868/FULL

    Variation of Condition - GrantedVariation of conditions (s73)CB/22/01710/VOC
  2. 2022
    26 Apr

    Creation of free draining hardstanding from existing boundary onto garden comprising loose sidings…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCB/22/01704/FULL
  3. 2017
    9 Aug

    Ancillary residential outbuilding and retention of hardstanding and change of use of land to garden land…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCB/17/03868/FULL
  4. 2016
    25 May

    A green roofed garden room (part retrospective)

    RefusedFull ApplicationCB/16/02276/FULL
  5. 2016
    25 May

    A single storey flat roof extension to Station Cottage at Southill to be used as a reception room.

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCB/16/02260/FULL

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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