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Clipstone Park Land, South of Vandyke Road and North of Stanbridge Road, Leighton Buzzard

Awaiting decision Central Bedfordshire CB/25/00212/RM Reserved Matters

Works: Extension Major scheme

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Proposal

Reserved Matters: following Outline Application CB/11/02827/OUT (Outline: Mixed use urban extension including 1210 dwellings, 70 units of Assisted Living for the Elderly, Class B1, B2, B8 Employment, Renewable Energy Plant and Recycling Facility, a Neighbourhood Centre comprising Retail Uses (Class A1-A3), a Public House (Class A4), a Multi Purpose Hall (Class D1), a GP Surgery (Class D1), Offices (Class B1), a Children's Nursery (Class D1) and Associated Car Parking, Community Hall (Class D1), Retail Units (Class A1-A3), an Elderly Person Care Home of up to 70 Beds (Class C2), a New Eastern Link Road between Vandyke Road and Stanbridge Road together with associated residential and employment access roads with associated car parking, the laying out of an area to the north and south of Clipstone Brook as a Park forming part of an Area of Green Infrastructure, the laying out of structural landscaping and green corridors for recreational use, the laying of 7.45 hectares of land as formal pitch provision together with the erection of appropriate changing facilities, the construction of footways and cycleways, the construction of structures to accommodate Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems, the laying out of 0.75 hectares as Allotments, the construction of 2 neighbourhood equipped areas for play and four locally equipped areas of play, a Lower School and Middle School including a Multi Use Games Area, Land for expansion of Vandyke Upper School including a Multi Use Games Area) Reserved Matters for approval of landscaping

As published by the council, reference CB/25/00212/RM

Application record

Reference
CB/25/00212/RM
Type
Reserved Matters
Status
Registered
Received
22 Jan 2025
Validated
2 Apr 2025
Parish
Eggington, Leighton-Linslade, Stanbridge

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 22 Jan 2025

    Received by Central Bedfordshire

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 23 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  4. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 28 May 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    Central Bedfordshire took a median of 71 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

44 documents on file for this application

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What happens while it is decided

This application is with Central Bedfordshire for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Central Bedfordshire decided reserved matters applications in a median of 230 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

About reserved matters applications

A reserved matters application fills in the detail held back from an earlier outline permission, judged against that permission rather than the principle of development. More in our guide to planning application types.

In Central Bedfordshire

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