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Land at Houghton Regis North, HRN1, Houghton Regis, LU5 6JW

CB/21/05265/NMANon-material Change to PermissionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 December 2021

Council decision: Non-Material Amendment - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Non-material amendment to planning permission CB/20/00449/RM (Reserved Matters: following Outline Application CB/12/03613/OUT planning permission with the details of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale reserved for later determination. Development to comprise: up to 5,150 dwellings (Use Class C3); up to 202,500 sqm gross of additional development in Use Classes: A1, A2, A3 (retail), A4 (public house), A5 (take away); B1, B2, B8 (offices, industrial and storage and distribution); C1 (hotel), C2 (care home), D1 and D2 (community and leisure); car showroom; data centre; petrol filling station; car parking; primary substation; energy centre; and for the laying out of the buildings; routes and open spaces within the development; and all associated works and operations including but not limited to: demolition; earthworks; engineering operations. All development, works and operations to be in accordance with the Development Parameters Schedule and Plans. Reserved matters planning application for 309 new homes, public open space, landscape and associated infrastructure pursuant to Conditions 3 and 4.) Amendment sought to boundary wall details

Received
26 November 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received26 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Dec
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land at Houghton Regis North, HRN1, Houghton Regis, LU5 6JW. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,284 applications in total for the LU5 postcode area.

86% of amendment 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 6JW
Application type
Non-material Change to Permission
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
5150
Parish
Houghton Regis

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2021
Consultation start
29 November 2021
Target decision date
27 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 The Gavel Centre Porters Wood St Albans AL3 6PQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 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.

  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2020
    20 Nov

    Non Material amendment to Planning Permission CB/20/00449/RM

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentCB/20/04245/NMA

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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