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Unit 33, Woodside Industrial Estate, Humphrys Road, Dunstable, LU5 4TP

CB/25/00482/PASPP.Notif. Solar PhotovoltaicsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 26 March 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Approval of the Installation or Replacement of other Solar Photovoltaics Equipment (Roof Mounted Only) : Installation of roof mounted solar PV panels.

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Mar
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 41 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Unit 33, Woodside Industrial Estate, Humphrys Road, Dunstable, LU5 4TP. Central Bedfordshire has handled 10,116 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 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.

Application details

Postcode
LU5 4TP
Application type
P.Notif. Solar Photovoltaics
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Houghton Regis

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2025
Consultation expiry
17 March 2025
Consultation start
13 February 2025
Consultation end
17 March 2025
Target decision date
10 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
27 Eldon Business Park Eldon Road Nottingham NG9 6DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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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