Car park to the rear of Church of Saint Michael and All Angels, High Street, Shefford, SG17 5DD

CB/20/01289/FULLFull ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved on 10 June 2020

Council decision: Full Application - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Proposed change of surface finish to car park from gravel to tarmac with rolled stone chippings

Received: 16 April 2020
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Central Bedfordshire Council

ReceivedReceived16 Apr
ValidatedValidated20 Apr
Consult.Consultation22 May
TargetTarget Date15 Jun
DecidedDecided10 Jun

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Car park to the rear of Church of Saint Michael and All Angels, High Street, Shefford, SG17 5DD. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 711 applications in total for the SG17 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: SG17 5DD
Application type: Full Application
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Shefford

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 April 2020
Consultation expiry: 22 May 2020
Consultation start: 20 April 2020
Consultation end: 22 May 2020
Target decision date: 15 June 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Business and Technology Centre Bessemer Drive Stevenage SG1 2DX

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 13

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Shefford Conservation Area
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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.

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© 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.

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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