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Land East of Ampthill Road and North of Bedford Road surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Houghton Conquest

CB/25/02745/RMReserved MattersApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 December 2025

Council decision: Reserved Matters- GrantedDelegated (officer decision)17 conditions

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

Proposal

Reserved Matters: following Outline Application CB/17/02575/OUT (Outline application (with all matters reserved except access): Mixed use development with access from Ampthill Road and Bedford Road comprising up to 650 dwellings, children's play spaces, a countryside park comprising formal and informal open space and playing pitches, new woodland and other landscape works together with a localised footpath diversion, a site of up to 2.00 hectares for educational use and other associated works and operations including but not limited to demolition, earthworks and engineering operations (including in relation to utilities and drainage). Approval of reserved matters for Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale) for 299 dwellings, with partial discharge of conditions 25 (Scheme of Noise Attenuation Measures), 26 (Waste Audit Scheme), 31 (Renewable and Low Energy Sources) and 37 (Landscape and Ecological Management Plan) (For Residential Areas 710)

Received
29 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated3 Sep
  3. Consult.10 Dec
  4. Target3 Dec
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Land East of Ampthill Road and North of Bedford Road surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Houghton Conquest. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address.

90% of outline 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

Application type
Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
650
Parish
Houghton Conquest

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 September 2025
Consultation expiry
10 December 2025
Consultation start
3 September 2025
Consultation end
10 December 2025
Target decision date
3 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Victoria House 199 Avebury Boulevard Milton Keynes Bucks MK9 1AU

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
620

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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