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Land to rear of 1 and 2 Ransom Court and 19 Clifton Road, Henlow, SG16 6BL

CB/26/00110/LDCELawful Development Cert - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: Lawful Dev - Existing - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Existing: Change of use of land to residential garden land

Received
14 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated26 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target23 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land to rear of 1 and 2 Ransom Court and 19 Clifton Road, Henlow, SG16 6BL. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer 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 71 applications in total for the SG16 postcode area.

86% of amendment 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
SG16 6BL
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Henlow

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 January 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
26 January 2026
Consultation end
19 March 2026
Target decision date
23 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bedford I LAB Priory Business Park Stannard Way Bedford MK44 3RZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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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