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Leighton Buzzard Social Centre, Duncombe Drive, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1SD

CB/25/02302/PADMP.Notif. Proposed DemolitionApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 18 November 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Notification - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Notification of proposed demolition: The existing building is a former adult day centre. The building is surplus to the councils requirements, now vacant following the opening of Marigold House. Mechanical demolition. The building will be demolished to slab level and the site boundary secured to prevent access until the redevelopment plans for the site are determined. It will be removed by a specialist contractor and disposed off site appropriately to a licensed waste disposal/transfer site

Received
16 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.20 Oct
  4. Target4 Sep
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 103 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Leighton Buzzard Social Centre, Duncombe Drive, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1SD. Central Bedfordshire has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 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 1,093 applications in total for the LU7 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
LU7 1SD
Application type
P.Notif. Proposed Demolition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leighton-Linslade

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2025
Consultation expiry
20 October 2025
Consultation start
7 August 2025
Consultation end
20 October 2025
Target decision date
4 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
24

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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