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Town Hall George Street Luton LU1 2BQ

21/01179/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 18 October 2021

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to Grade II Listed Building: To refurbish the existing office spaces of the lower ground floor to provide new open plan offices, toilets, change and prayer facilities and some minor changes and alterations to suit site works

Received
20 August 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received20 Aug
  2. Validated20 Aug
  3. Consult.16 Sep
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided18 Oct

Decided in 59 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 59 days, 3 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. 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
20 August 2021
Consultation expiry
16 September 2021
Consultation start
26 August 2021
Consultation end
16 September 2021
Last date for comments
29 September 2021
Target decision date
22 October 2021
Permission expires
18 October 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
63 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 September 2021
Site notice start
26 August 2021

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Town Centre Conservation Area 1
  • Listed building: Grade II: Luton Town HallOn this site · +1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: George Street/Town Centre
  • 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.

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

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© 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: Luton

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