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The Cross Keys, 201 Castle Hill Road and land to the rear of 203 Castle Hill Road Totternhoe, Dunstable, LU6 2DA

CB/23/02279/FULLFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 18 January 2024

Council decision: Full Application - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Changes to the car park, access arrangements and pub garden for the Cross Keys PH and the erection of 1 single storey dwelling on land to the rear of the PH and part of the rear garden of 203 Castle Hill Road.

Received
10 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.16 Oct
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided18 Jan

Decided in 185 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at The Cross Keys, 201 Castle Hill Road and land to the rear of 203 Castle Hill Road Totternhoe, Dunstable, LU6 2DA. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 192 days, 19 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,097 applications in total for the LU6 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
LU6 2DA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Totternhoe

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2023
Consultation expiry
16 October 2023
Consultation start
17 July 2023
Consultation end
16 October 2023
Target decision date
11 September 2023
Decision issued
19 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
50 North Thirteenth Street Central Milton Keynes Bucks MK9 3BP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal date
24 May 2024
Appeal result
Planning Appeal Dismissed
Appeal decision date
19 February 2025

Appeal history

3344832
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 19 February 2025Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal
Green Belt

Additional information

Documents
93

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, 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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