Manor Farm, Meppershall Road, Upper Stondon

CB/25/00355/AGAgricultural DevelopmentApproved

Prior approval

Approved on 3 March 2025

Council decision: Agricultural Development - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior Notification of Agricultural Development: Installation of six new rainwater harvesting tanks with a capacity of 30,000 litres each to be installed on a new reinforced concrete base approximately 24m in length and 5m in width for agricultural use.

Received: 4 February 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Central Bedfordshire Council

ReceivedReceived4 Feb
ValidatedValidated5 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date5 Mar
DecidedDecided3 Mar

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Manor Farm, Meppershall Road, Upper Stondon. Central Bedfordshire has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker 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 71 applications in total for the SG16 postcode area.

87% of all 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: SG16 6LL
Application type: Agricultural Development
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Stondon

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 February 2025
Consultation start: 5 February 2025
Target decision date: 5 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 1 Highfield Court Highfield Road Oakley MK43 7TA

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 6

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.

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© 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.

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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