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4 Waterlow Road, Dunstable, LU6 1LY

CB/25/01057/LDCPLawful Development Cert - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 May 2025

Council decision: Lawful Dev - Proposed - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Proposed: Loft conversion with rear dormer windows and rooflights to front

Received
27 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received27 Mar
  2. Validated28 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 May
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 4 Waterlow Road, Dunstable, LU6 1LY. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days 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 2,097 applications in total for the LU6 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
LU6 1LY
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dunstable

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 March 2025
Consultation start
28 March 2025
Target decision date
23 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
15 Carlisle Close Dunstable LU6 3PH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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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