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Ansley House, London End, Woburn, Milton Keynes, MK17 9PU

CB/25/04000/FULLFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 2 April 2026

Council decision: Full Application - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)3 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Demolition of the existing dwelling, garage and pool house, and erection of a replacement self-build dwelling and garage, creation of new access, and new boundary wall and gate

Received
18 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Mar
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided2 Apr

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Ansley House, London End, Woburn, Milton Keynes, MK17 9PU. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,678 applications in total for the MK17 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed dwelling would be materially larger in scale than the dwelling that it would replace, thereby representing inappropriate development in the Green Belt, which is by definition, harmful to the Green Belt. The proposed replacement dwelling would also result in a significant loss of openness in both spatial and visual terms. No very special circumstances are considered to exist and the proposal would be conflict with Policy SP4 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan (2021) and Section 13 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2024).
  2. The proposed development, by reason of its siting and layout, would result in unacceptable conflict with the crown spread of adjacent boundary trees, including high and moderate quality specimens which are protected within the Woburn Conservation Area under Section 211 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. As such, the proposal would fail to achieve a sustainable relationship between the development and retained trees and would result in harm to trees protected . The development is therefore contrary to Policy HQ1 and EE4 of the CBLP (2021), Section 12 and 15 of the NPPF (2024) and the CBDG (2023).
  3. Insufficient information has been provided within the application to demonstrate that the development would be able to deliver a net gain for biodiversity. As such, the proposal is contrary to Policy EE2 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan (2021), Section 15 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2023) and Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as inserted by Schedule 14 of the Environment Act 2021).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
MK17 9PU
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2026
Consultation expiry
27 March 2026
Consultation start
12 February 2026
Consultation end
27 March 2026
Target decision date
9 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7 Canon Harnett Court Wolverton Mill Milton Keynes MK12 5NF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
37

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Woburn Conservation Area
  • Green belt: Central Bedfordshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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.

© 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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