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The Co Operative, Mill Road, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0JG

CB/25/00120/FULLFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 27 March 2025

Council decision: Full Application - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of a first floor over existing retail units to create three apartments (2x2-bed and 1x1-bed) with roof lights and single storey rear extension. Demolition of existing outbuildings. Partial demolition and rebuild of side elevation of retail unit.

Received
15 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.21 Mar
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Co Operative, Mill Road, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0JG. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 425 applications in total for the MK43 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
MK43 0JG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cranfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2025
Consultation expiry
21 March 2025
Consultation start
3 February 2025
Consultation end
21 March 2025
Target decision date
31 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7 Paynes Park Hitchin SG5 1EH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
33

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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