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Land to the south of The Bungalow, Bedford Road, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 6JS

CB/20/00687/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 February 2021

Council decision: Full Application - GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Residential development of 31 affordable dwellings with formation of two vehicular accesses, sustainable urban drainage and associated landscaping

Received
25 February 2020
Decision level
Planning committee
  1. Received25 Feb
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target5 Jun
  5. Decided22 Feb

Decided in 353 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land to the south of The Bungalow, Bedford Road, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 6JS. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 363 days, 44 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 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
Large
Number of dwellings
31
Parish
Houghton Regis

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2020
Consultation expiry
30 September 2020
Consultation start
6 March 2020
Consultation end
30 September 2020
Target decision date
5 June 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1st Floor 1 Canon Harnett Court Wolverton Mill Milton Keynes MK12 5NF

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
70

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    22 Mar

    Discharge of Condition 5 against planning permission CB/20/00687/FULL

    Discharge of Condition Decision ReleasedDischarge of conditionsCB/23/00970/DOC
  2. 2022
    14 Jul

    Discharge of Conditions 8,9 against planning permission CB/20/00687/FULL

    Discharge of Condition Decision ReleasedDischarge of conditionsCB/22/02864/DOC
  3. 2021
    7 Jun

    Discharge of Condition 2 to planning permission CB/20/00687/FULL

    Discharge of Condition Decision ReleasedDischarge of conditionsCB/21/02658/DOC
  4. 2021
    14 Apr

    Discharge of Condition 5 against planning permission CB/20/00687/FULL

    Discharge of Condition Decision ReleasedDischarge of conditionsCB/21/01682/DOC
  5. 2021
    23 Feb

    Discharge of Conditions 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 against planning permission CB/20/00687/FULL

    Discharge of Condition Decision ReleasedDischarge of conditionsCB/21/00787/DOC
  6. 2020
    25 Feb

    Residential development of 31 affordable dwellings with formation of two vehicular accesses, sustainable…

    This applicationApprovedFullCB/20/00687/FULL

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