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Vauxhall Aftersales Warehouse, B579 Luton Road, Chalton, Luton, LU4 9TT

CB/23/01803/SCNEIA - Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 June 2023

Council decision: Pre-application Advice ReleasedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion

Received
26 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received26 May
  2. Validated30 May
  3. Consult.22 Jun
  4. Target20 Jun
  5. Decided19 Jun

Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Vauxhall Aftersales Warehouse, B579 Luton Road, Chalton, Luton, LU4 9TT. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 5 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 354 applications in total for the LU4 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
LU4 9TT
Application type
EIA - Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Chalton

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 May 2023
Consultation expiry
22 June 2023
Consultation start
30 May 2023
Consultation end
22 June 2023
Target decision date
20 June 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 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.

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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