planning department

Bedford Borough ranked 322 out of the 333 local planning authorities.

Bedford Borough Council planners try to keep applicants up to date with decision delays, but if they updated them every day the planners wouldn’t have the time to do anything else...

Planning department relies on costly consultants to clear caseload backlog

Bedford Borough Council offers a “challenging but rewarding career” for planners, offers “almost everything” a planner is likely to experience, but the high caseload needs to be tackled...

Thurleigh villagers divided over ‘anti democratic’ housing plan

Councillors have controversially granted permission to an “anti-democratic” plan for 20 new homes in a village near Bedford. A site called Hayle Field, off High Street, in Thurleigh...

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