42 Beale Street, Dunstable, LU6 1LZ

CB/26/00033/LDCPLawful Development Cert - ProposedApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 January 2026

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

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Proposed: Conversion of garage to habitable space

Received: 7 January 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Central Bedfordshire Council

ReceivedReceived7 Jan
ValidatedValidated8 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date5 Mar
DecidedDecided21 Jan

Decided in 13 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 42 Beale Street, Dunstable, LU6 1LZ. Central Bedfordshire has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 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 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 1LZ
Application type: Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Dunstable

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 January 2026
Consultation start: 8 January 2026
Target decision date: 5 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 169 Manor Road Caddington Luton LU1 4HJ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 7

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.

Source: Central Bedfordshire

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