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4 Bidwell Farm Barns, Bedford Road, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 6JS

CB/19/00840/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 9 August 2019

Council decision: Full Application - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Sub-division of barn into two dwellings.

Received
15 March 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received15 Mar
  2. Validated15 Mar
  3. Consult.19 Jul
  4. Target10 May
  5. Decided9 Aug

Decided in 147 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 4 Bidwell Farm Barns, Bedford Road, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 6JS. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,284 applications in total for the LU5 postcode area.

82% of full 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 6JS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Houghton Regis

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 March 2019
Consultation expiry
19 July 2019
Consultation start
15 March 2019
Consultation end
19 July 2019
Target decision date
10 May 2019
Decision issued
12 August 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Old Parsonage Bedford Street Woburn Milton Keynes MK17 9QL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

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.

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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