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The Royal Oak, Bedford Road, Barton-le-Clay, Bedford, MK45 4JX

CB/23/03545/LDCELawful Development Cert - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 February 2024

Council decision: Lawful Dev - Existing - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Existing: Front seating area to The Royal Oak Public House

Received
2 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received2 Nov
  2. Validated3 Nov
  3. Consult.13 Dec
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Royal Oak, Bedford Road, Barton-le-Clay, Bedford, MK45 4JX. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,682 applications in total for the MK45 postcode area.

86% of amendment 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
MK45 4JX
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barton-Le-Clay

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 November 2023
Consultation expiry
13 December 2023
Consultation start
3 November 2023
Consultation end
13 December 2023
Target decision date
29 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Room 5, Malt House The Maltings Station Road Sawbridgeworth CM21 9JX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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: Barton 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.

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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