5 Albany Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1NS
Approved on 3 December 2025
Council decision: Lawful Dev - Proposed - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed: Rear dormer extension
- Received
- 16 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Central Bedfordshire Council
- ReceivedReceived16 Oct
- ValidatedValidated17 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date12 Dec
- DecidedDecided3 Dec
Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a dormer extension at 5 Albany Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1NS. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker 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.
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
- Postcode
- LU7 1NS
- Application type
- Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Leighton-Linslade
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Second Floor Suite 12 Church Square Leighton Buzzard LU7 1AE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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Source: Central Bedfordshire
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