7-9 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 7AE
Proposal
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed: Installation of 8 x vehicle EV charging points within an existing car park
- Received
- 1 September 2025
- Decided
- 22 January 2026 · Lawful Dev - Proposed - Granted
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Central Bedfordshire Council
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- ReceivedSubmitted1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated25 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date20 Nov
- DecidedDecided22 Jan
Decided in 119 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application at 7-9 Church Square, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 7AE. Central Bedfordshire has handled 983 applications of this type and approves 91% of them, typically deciding them in 42 days. This one was decided in 143 days, 14 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's median. The site is in a conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,036 applications in total for the LU7 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202426 Jun
Demolition of sorting office and industrial sheds. Erection of a 65 room hotel with associated hard and soft…
PendingFull ApplicationCB/24/01869/FULL - 202431 Jan
Demolition of existing small extension and enhancement of existing hard standing, car parking area to provide…
WithdrawnFull ApplicationCB/24/00277/FULL
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Leighton Conservation Area
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, 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.
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