Astral Green Energy Park, Leighton Buzzard
Approved on 8 June 2023
Council decision: Pre-application Advice ReleasedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
SCN - EIA Screening Opinion
- Received
- 26 May 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Central Bedfordshire Council
- ReceivedReceived26 May
- ValidatedValidated30 May
- Consult.Consultation21 Jun
- TargetTarget Date20 Jun
- DecidedDecided8 Jun
Decided in 9 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Astral Green Energy Park, Leighton Buzzard. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 13 days, 6 weeks quicker than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,093 applications in total for the LU7 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
- LU7 1EE
- Application type
- EIA - Screening Opinion
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Billington, Stanbridge
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 May 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 21 June 2023
- Consultation start
- 30 May 2023
- Consultation end
- 21 June 2023
- Target decision date
- 20 June 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Leighton Conservation Area
- 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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