Spinney Park Industrial Estate, Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9HH
Refused on 22 May 2025
Council decision: Full Application - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Erection of a foodstore with associated vehicle access, car parking, landscaping, engineering and drainage works.
- Received
- 20 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Central Bedfordshire Council
- ReceivedReceived20 Feb
- ValidatedValidated24 Feb
- Consult.Consultation22 Apr
- TargetTarget Date26 May
- DecidedDecided22 May
Decided in 87 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Spinney Park Industrial Estate, Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9HH. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 1,093 applications in total for the LU7 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
- LU7 9HH
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Leighton-Linslade
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 22 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 22 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 26 May 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Office 3.18 Scott House The Concourse Waterloo Station London SE1 7LY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 57
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202614 Oct
Discharge of Condition 19 against planning permission ref CB/25/03665/FULL
PendingDischarge of conditionsCB/26/03146/DOC - 20262 Oct
Advertisement: 1 double sided free standing, illuminated billboard sign, facing Chartmoor Road.
PendingAdvertisement consentCB/26/02650/ADV - 202620 Jul
Discharge of Condition 25 against planning permission ref CB/25/03665/FULL
PendingDischarge of conditionsCB/26/02271/DOC - 202626 May
Advertisement: 2 internally illuminated fascia signs, 1 internally illuminated flagpole sign, 1 externally…
ApprovedAdvertisement consentCB/26/01379/ADV - 202517 Nov
Erection of a foodstore with associated vehicle access, car parking, landscaping, engineering and drainage…
PendingFull ApplicationCB/25/03665/FULL
Source: Central Bedfordshire
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