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36 Woodlands Avenue, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 5LJ

CB/20/00232/LDCPLawful Development Cert - ProposedWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 7 February 2020

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Proposed: Loft conversion with dormer extension to rear roofslope and rooflights to front roofslope.

Received
23 January 2020
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated24 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 36 Woodlands Avenue, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 5LJ. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 15 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,284 applications in total for the LU5 postcode area.

90% of outline 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
LU5 5LJ
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Houghton Regis

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 January 2020
Consultation start
24 January 2020
Target decision date
20 March 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
23 Hardwick Hall Way Daventry NN11 8AQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Houghton Regis Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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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