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Brook House, Watling Street, Hockliffe, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9NF

CB/25/02849/LBListed BuildingApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 18 December 2025

Council decision: Listed Building - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed Building: Replace existing lime render to NE (front) & SE (side) elevations at first floor with new lime render in lime white, lime wash to all existing lime washed walls on all elevations in lime white, repoint both end gable chimney stacks and replace 4 softwood windows

Received
8 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.16 Dec
  4. Target18 Dec
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at Brook House, Watling Street, Hockliffe, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9NF. Central Bedfordshire has handled 583 applications of this type. This one was decided in 101 days, 6 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,093 applications in total for the LU7 postcode area.

90% of heritage 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 9NF
Application type
Listed Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hockliffe

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 October 2025
Consultation expiry
16 December 2025
Consultation start
23 October 2025
Consultation end
16 December 2025
Target decision date
18 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 Linwood Grove Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 4RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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 2: Medium 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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