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Cranfield University Sewage Treatment Works, Handley Page Close, Cranfield. MK45 0TG

CB/25/00213/DOCDischarge of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 February 2025

Council decision: Discharge of Condition Decision Released

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

Proposal

Discharge of Conditions 2 and 3 against planning permission ref. CB/21/05548/FULL (Erection of a National Environment Sector Decarbonisation Accelerator (NESDA) test facility with outdoor storage area and associated parking)

Received
22 January 2025
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.17 Feb
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided10 Feb

Decided in 18 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Cranfield University Sewage Treatment Works, Handley Page Close, Cranfield. MK45 0TG. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,097 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,682 applications in total for the MK45 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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 0TG
Application type
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cranfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2025
Consultation expiry
17 February 2025
Consultation start
23 January 2025
Consultation end
17 February 2025
Target decision date
20 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
41-43 Maddox Street London W1S 2PD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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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