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13A Richard Street, Dunstable, LU5 4BQ

CB/25/03837/FULLFull ApplicationWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 17 February 2026

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

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

Proposal

Change of Use from Class E to Class C3 residential dwelling

Received
2 December 2025
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.12 Jan
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 13A Richard Street, Dunstable, LU5 4BQ. Central Bedfordshire has handled 5,653 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 77 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,284 applications in total for the LU5 postcode area.

82% of full 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 4BQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dunstable

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2025
Consultation expiry
12 January 2026
Consultation start
3 December 2025
Consultation end
12 January 2026
Target decision date
28 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
22

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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