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Greenacres, 16 Thorncote Road, Northill, Biggleswade, SG18 9AQ

CB/24/02400/LDCELawful Development Cert - ExistingDecided
Lawful development certificate

Decided on 20 November 2024

Council decision: Split DecisionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Existing: construction of a manège and access with use of stables for equine private stabling and livery.

Received
14 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated3 Sep
  3. Consult.21 Oct
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Greenacres, 16 Thorncote Road, Northill, Biggleswade, SG18 9AQ. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,018 applications in total for the SG18 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
SG18 9AQ
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northill

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 September 2024
Consultation expiry
21 October 2024
Consultation start
3 September 2024
Consultation end
21 October 2024
Target decision date
29 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7 Whipperley Way Luton LU1 5LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3357460
Dismissed
Type: Lawful Development CertificateProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 1 June 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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