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Orchard Grange, The Village, Old Warden, Biggleswade, SG18 9HB

CB/23/01407/LBListed BuildingApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 26 June 2023

Council decision: Listed Building - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Listed Building: Erection of a glazed verandah with aluminium latticed pillars. Internal alterations to include a new en suite bathroom on the first floor. Existing bathroom to be converted into a store room. Removal of a thin partition wall, and installation of a new wall at new position. Reinforce the floor, cut through some floor joists for plumbing works and hole in the external wall to install an extractor fan.

Received
26 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received26 Apr
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.16 Jun
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided26 Jun

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Orchard Grange, The Village, Old Warden, Biggleswade, SG18 9HB. Central Bedfordshire has handled 583 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,018 applications in total for the SG18 postcode area.

90% of heritage 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 9HB
Application type
Listed Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Old Warden

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2023
Consultation expiry
16 June 2023
Consultation start
16 May 2023
Consultation end
16 June 2023
Target decision date
11 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
17

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: Old Warden and Old Warden Park Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Orchard GrangeOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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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