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Well Cottage, Featherbed Lane, Chalgrave, Dunstable, LU5 6JL

CB/17/02914/LDCPLawful Development Cert - ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 31 July 2018

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Proposed - New out building to be used ancillary to Well Cottage

Received
14 June 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 389 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Well Cottage, Featherbed Lane, Chalgrave, Dunstable, LU5 6JL. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 412 days, 51 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 9 other applications at this address. We hold 1,284 applications in total for the LU5 postcode area.

90% of outline 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
LU5 6JL
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chalgrave

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2017
Consultation start
7 July 2017
Target decision date
1 September 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
26 The Ride The Grange Desborough NN14 2HZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal date
3 April 2019
Appeal result
Planning Appeal Dismissed
Appeal decision date
12 February 2020

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Central Bedfordshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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Planning history at this site

9 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    17 Sep

    New self build replacement dwelling

    RefusedFull ApplicationCB/25/02948/FULL
  2. 2025
    20 Mar

    Demolition of existing dwelling and the erection of a replacement self-build dwelling.

    RefusedFull ApplicationCB/25/00926/FULL
  3. 2024
    13 Sep

    Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of replacement self-build dwelling.

    RefusedFull ApplicationCB/24/02680/FULL
  4. 2024
    21 Aug

    Prior Approval of change of use of agricultural building to dwelling: Conversion of existing Barns into 4…

    RefusedP.Notif. Agricultural to DwellingCB/24/02468/PAAD
  5. 2023
    16 Mar

    Prior Approval of change of use of agricultural building to dwelling: Conversion of barns to 4 dwellinghouses

    RefusedP.Notif. Agricultural to DwellingCB/23/00940/PAAD
  6. 2022
    4 Nov

    Lawful Development Certificate Existing: for a single storey rear extension to barn B, new doors, windows and…

    ApprovedLawful Development Cert - ExistingCB/22/04310/LDCE

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