Sports Pitches, Super Local Area of Play and Car Parking located at Land East Of Ampthill Road And North Of Bedford Road Surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Bedford Road, Houghton Conquest
Proposal
Reserved Matters: following Outline Application CB/17/02575/OUT (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). Approval of reserved matters for Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale) for Sports Pitches, Super Local Area of Play (SLAP) and Car Parking, with partial discharge of condition 37 (Landscape and Ecological Management Plan).
- Received
- 3 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 19 March 2026
- Council
- Central Bedfordshire Council
- ReceivedSubmitted3 Dec
- ValidatedValidated18 Dec
- Consult.Consultation30 Jan
- TargetTarget Date19 Mar
- DecidedDecided
This is an outline application for demolition at Sports Pitches, Super Local Area of Play and Car Parking located at Land East Of Ampthill Road And North Of Bedford Road Surrounding Great Thickthorn Farm, Bedford Road, Houghton Conquest. Central Bedfordshire has handled 983 applications of this type and approves 91% of them, typically deciding them in 42 days. It was submitted on 3 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.
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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.
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