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Church Cottage, 1 Chalgrave Church Lane, Chalgrave, Dunstable, LU5 6JN

CB/25/02510/FULLFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Full Application - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Alterations and conversion of attached front garage to an annexe, following demolition of existing detached mobile home

Received
4 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.10 Dec
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Church Cottage, 1 Chalgrave Church Lane, Chalgrave, Dunstable, LU5 6JN. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 137 days, 12 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,284 applications in total for the LU5 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development would, taken together with previous extensions to this property, result in a dwelling extended to a cumulatively disproportionate degree having regard to the level of restraint appropriate within the Green Belt. By reason of its size, massing and overall design, the proposed development would be harmful to the openness of the Green Belt and would represent inappropriate development, which is, by definition, harmful to the Green Belt and should not be approved except in very special circumstances in contrast to Section 13 of the NPPF, Policy SP4 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan and Section 11.32 of the Central Bedfordshire Design Guide.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LU5 6JN
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chalgrave

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Consultation expiry
10 December 2025
Consultation start
24 October 2025
Consultation end
10 December 2025
Target decision date
19 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

6003628
Dismissed
Type: Householder (HAS)Procedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 9 March 2026Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: refused
Green Belt

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Central Bedfordshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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