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Northill Lower School, Bedford Road, Northill, Biggleswade, SG18 9AH

CB/25/01712/NMANon-material Change to PermissionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 June 2025

Council decision: Non-Material Amendment - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Non-material amendment to planning permission CB/24/02537/REG3 (New build hall with servery and storage, to be placed over existing informal play space. Reorganisation and alteration to parts of the existing school building with associated landscaping works.) Amendment sought to minor change to the building footprint (reduction in size). Necessary value engineering, to reduce the cost of the development

Received
23 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received23 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Jun
  5. Decided2 Jun

Decided in 6 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Northill Lower School, Bedford Road, Northill, Biggleswade, SG18 9AH. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 10 days, 7 weeks quicker than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 9 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 9AH
Application type
Non-material Change to Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northill

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2025
Consultation start
27 May 2025
Target decision date
24 June 2025
Decision issued
6 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
86-90 Paul Street London EC2A 4NE

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.

  • Conservation area: Northill Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    12 Oct

    Discharge of Conditions 4, 7, and 11 against planning permission ref: CB/24/02537/REG3

    PendingDischarge of conditionsCB/26/03100/DOC
  2. 2025
    10 Sep

    Discharge of Conditions 8, 10 and 13 against planning permission CB/24/02537/REG3

    PendingDischarge of conditionsCB/25/02881/DOC
  3. 2025
    7 Aug

    Discharge of Conditions 2, 5, 6 and 17 against planning permission ref: CB/24/02537/REG3

    Discharge of Condition Decision ReleasedDischarge of conditionsCB/25/02539/DOC
  4. 2025
    23 May

    Non-material amendment to planning permission CB/24/02537/REG3

    This applicationApprovedNon-material amendmentCB/25/01712/NMA
  5. 2024
    29 Aug

    New build hall with servery and storage, to be placed over existing informal play space. Reorganisation and…

    ApprovedRegulation 3Part ofCB/24/02537/REG3

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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