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

CB/25/03747/DOCDischarge of ConditionAwaiting decision
Discharge / amendments
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Discharge of Conditions 13, 14, 19 & 40 against planning permission 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).)

Received
24 November 2025
Decision due
20 January 2026
  1. Received24 Nov
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.24 Dec
  4. Target20 Jan
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 24 December.

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About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land East of Ampthill Road and North of Bedford Road surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Houghton Conquest. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,097 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 24 November 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address.

97% of conditions 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
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
650
Parish
Houghton Conquest

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2025
Consultation expiry
24 December 2025
Consultation start
25 November 2025
Consultation end
24 December 2025

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

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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