Town Hall George Street Luton LU1 2BQ
Approved on 30 March 2022
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Works to Grade II Listed Building: Conservation cleaning, repointing with lime mortar, minor stone indent repairs, applying coating to seal the butt joints
- Received
- 7 June 2021
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Luton Borough Council
- Ward
- SOUTH
- ReceivedReceived7 Jun
- ValidatedValidated29 Jul
- Consult.Consultation9 Sep
- TargetTarget Date31 Mar
- DecidedDecided30 Mar
Decided in 244 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Town Hall George Street Luton LU1 2BQ. Luton has handled 23 applications of this type. This one was decided in 296 days, 34 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in the Town Centre conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across SOUTH. We hold 1,824 applications in total for the LU1 postcode area.
100% of heritage applications at Luton Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- LU1 2BQ
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 July 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 9 September 2021
- Consultation start
- 9 August 2021
- Consultation end
- 9 September 2021
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 August 2021
- Neighbour consultation end
- 2 September 2021
- Last date for comments
- 2 September 2021
- Target decision date
- 31 March 2022
- Permission expires
- 30 March 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 245 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 11 August 2021
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Town Centre Conservation Area 1
- Brownfield land register: 6 - 8 Gordon StreetRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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 and heritage coasts.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20268 Jan
Flags to be flown from two 9 m free-standing flagpoles on either side of the Town Hall Square
WithdrawnAdvertisement consent26/00026/ADV - 20256 Aug
Advertisement consent to fly flags from a free-standing flagpole to be located on the Town Hall Square.
RefusedAdvertisement consent25/00890/ADV - 202326 May
Certificate of lawfulness of proposed development - Replacement of existing brick slips bands to facade on…
ApprovedCertificate of lawfulness (Proposed)23/00600/LAWP - 202120 Aug
Works to Grade II Listed Building: To refurbish the existing office spaces of the lower ground floor to…
ApprovedListed building consent21/01179/LBC
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