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Cotton Mill Mews Kingham Way Luton LU2 7RG

21/00649/PACOMPrior - Offices to ResiWithdrawn
Prior approval

Withdrawn on 29 June 2021

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for a determination as to whether prior approval is required under Part 3 Class O of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - Change of use from office(s) (B1(a)) to (C3) residential. (Class O). 1 x Two bedroom flat and 2 x 1 bedroom flats.

Received
4 May 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
HIGH TOWN
  1. Received4 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.3 Jun
  4. Target7 Jul
  5. Decided29 Jun

Decided in 48 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Cotton Mill Mews Kingham Way Luton LU2 7RG. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 56 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across HIGH TOWN. We hold 963 applications in total for the LU2 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LU2 7RG
Application type
Prior - Offices to Resi
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2021
Consultation expiry
7 June 2021
Consultation start
13 May 2021
Consultation end
3 June 2021
Neighbour consultation start
17 May 2021
Neighbour consultation end
7 June 2021
Last date for comments
7 June 2021
Target decision date
7 July 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
16 School Lane Offley Hitchin SG5 3AZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 May 2021

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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.

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2022
    4 Aug

    Conversion and change of use of Cotton Mill Mews, ground floor ( Class B8 use) into offices (Class B1 use)…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions22/01020/DOC
  2. 2022
    28 Feb

    Retrospective planning permission for the conversion and change of use of ground floor from industrial use to…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions22/00236/DOC
  3. 2021
    1 Nov

    Demolition of Unit 2 (B8 use) and the erection of a single storey and two storey buildings to provide 2 x one…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions21/01540/DOC
  4. 2021
    29 Oct

    Conversion and change of use of Cotton Mill Mews, ground floor ( Class B8 use) into offices (Class B1 use)…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions21/01525/DOC
  5. 2021
    29 Oct

    Conversion and the erection of first/two storey rear extension of The Old Bancroft Building (B2 Use) to…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions21/01528/DOC
  6. 2021
    29 Oct

    Demolition of the White House (B2 use) and erection of a two storey building to provide of 2 x one bed flats…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions21/01531/DOC

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