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Grovebury Quarry, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 0QU

CB/26/02069/MWMinerals & Waste ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 16 October 2026

Council decision: Minerals Application - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)29 conditions

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

Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 of Planning Ref. No. CB/21/03929/MW to extend duration of extraction and restoration to exhaust all permitted reserves and to increase the permitted volume of imported soils.

Received
30 June 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target29 Sep
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 108 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Grovebury Quarry, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 0QU. Central Bedfordshire has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 108 days, 7 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,093 applications in total for the LU7 postcode area.

87% of all 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 0QU
Application type
Minerals & Waste Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Leighton-Linslade, Billington

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 June 2026
Consultation expiry
5 August 2026
Consultation start
30 June 2026
Consultation end
5 August 2026
Target decision date
29 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Regus House 12-22 Newhall Street Birmingham B3 3AS

Planning decision

Case officer
Peter Moor
Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
1

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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