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Hyde Sewage Treatment Works, Lower Harpenden Road, Hyde, Luton, LU1 3TR

CB/26/00850/LDCELawful Development Cert - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 13 August 2026

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

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Existing: Continued use of two metal storage units (Unit 1 and 2) and one temporary tanked portaloo. 2.4m palisade fencing with a manual gate accessed from Lower Harpenden Road

Received
16 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.29 Jul
  4. Target10 Jul
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Hyde Sewage Treatment Works, Lower Harpenden Road, Hyde, Luton, LU1 3TR. Central Bedfordshire has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 150 days, 13 weeks longer than Central Bedfordshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,824 applications in total for the LU1 postcode area.

86% of amendment 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
LU1 3TR
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hyde

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2026
Consultation expiry
29 July 2026
Consultation start
15 May 2026
Consultation end
29 July 2026
Target decision date
10 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    16 Mar

    Retrospective permission for the erection of Unit 3 (welfare facility), Unit 4 (drying room) and Unit 5…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationFiled alongsideCB/26/00846/FULL
  2. 2026
    16 Mar

    Lawful Development Certificate Existing: Continued use of two metal storage units (Unit 1 and 2) and one…

    This applicationApprovedAmendmentCB/26/00850/LDCE

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