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15, 15a and 15b Hitchin Street, Biggleswade, SG18 8AX

CB/24/00289/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 9 May 2024

Council decision: Full Application - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conversion of the property from 1 x 5-bed self-contained flat to create 3 x self-contained flats (1 x 1bed 2 person, 1 x 3bed 4 person and 1 x 3bed 6 person).

Received
2 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated7 Mar
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target2 May
  5. Decided9 May

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 15, 15a and 15b Hitchin Street, Biggleswade, SG18 8AX. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks 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.

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
SG18 8AX
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Biggleswade

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 March 2024
Consultation expiry
10 April 2024
Consultation start
7 March 2024
Consultation end
10 April 2024
Target decision date
2 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
OCC Building A 105 Eade Road London N4 1TJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
27

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: Biggleswade Conservation Area
  • Brownfield land register: Houghton Lodge, AmpthillRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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