The Five Bells, Station Road, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9JF

CB/25/03815/FULLFull ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved

Council decision: Full Application - Granted

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

Proposal

Construction of a pergola with fixed booth seating, timber decking to the rear beer garden with landscaping

Received: 1 December 2025
Council: Central Bedfordshire Council

ReceivedReceived1 Dec
ValidatedValidated22 Jan
Consult.Consultation17 Mar
TargetTarget Date19 Mar
DecidedDecided

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Five Bells, Station Road, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9JF. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 1 December 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,093 applications in total for the LU7 postcode area.

82% of full 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 9JF
Application type: Full Application
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Stanbridge

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 January 2026
Consultation expiry: 17 March 2026
Consultation start: 22 January 2026
Consultation end: 17 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Bourne House Cores End Road Bourne End Bucks SL8 5AR

Planning decision

Decision: Full Application - Granted
Case officer: Grace Howard
Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 15

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Green belt: Central Bedfordshire
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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