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Special Development Order: Entertainment Resort Complex and Associated Development in Bedford

The map, copies of notices, documents, and statements identifying documents not published for reasons of safety or security of any premises or property or national security.

Applies to England

The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025 (2025 No. 1322) has been laid before Parliament and came into force on 12 January 2026.

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An Explanatory Memorandum accompanies the Special Development Order. This provides an explanation of the effect of the legislation and why it is necessary.

The Special Development Order grants planning permission, subject to conditions and limitations, for an Entertainment Resort Complex and associated development at the former brickworks and adjoining land at Kempston Hardwick, Bedford.

Further documents will be made available in due course.

Statement of reasons

Statement of reasoned conclusion of the Secretary of State on the significant effects of the development on the environment; main reasons and considerations on which the decision is based; and a summary of the results of the consultations undertaken, and information gathered, in respect of the Proposal and how those results have been incorporated or otherwise addressed; and information regarding the right to challenge the validity of the decision and the procedures for doing so.

Statement of reasons

Documents and notices

The map

A map showing the land in the administrative area of Bedford Borough Council that the Special Development Order applies to, bounded externally by the outer edge of a bold red line (excluding the part of that land which is shown hatched red on the map).

(PDF, 1.51 MB, 2 pages)

Secretary of State’s Statement under Article 8

Statements issued by the Secretary of State where they have considered it appropriate to redact the entire contents of a document instead of making a copy available for public inspection.

(PDF, 131 KB, 1 page)

Schedule 1 reference documents

Documents as they were submitted to the Secretary of State on 26 June 2025 and published by the Secretary of State on 3 July 2025 and listed in Schedule 1 of the Special Development Order, and any subsequent modification of any such document under article 7.

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Other documents

Documents supporting the request for planning permission for an Entertainment Resort Complex and associated development in Bedford as they were submitted to the Secretary of State on 26 June 2025 and published by the Secretary of State on 3 July 2025.

Additionally, documents detailing how the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government conducted publication, notification and consultation in considering a request for planning permission for an Entertainment Resort Complex and associated development in Bedford, and its administrative arrangements.

Request for planning permission: Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford

Updates to this page

Published 17 December 2025
Last updated 22 December 2025 show all updates
  1. Statement of reasons added.

  2. First published.

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