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Cresta House 8 Alma Street Luton LU1 2PL

22/00349/DOCDischarge of Multiple ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 May 2022

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conversion and change of use from community infrastructure (Class D1) to 36 flats (16 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom) (Class C3) across the second, part of the fourth, fifth and part of the sixth floor. Discharge of conditions 5 (site security) and 6 (management plan) of planning permission 19/00926/COU dated 17th March 2020.

Received
21 March 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received21 Mar
  2. Validated28 Mar
  3. Consult.20 Apr
  4. Target23 May
  5. Decided24 May

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Cresta House 8 Alma Street Luton LU1 2PL. Luton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

96% of conditions 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 2PL
Application type
Discharge of Multiple Conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
36

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 March 2022
Consultation expiry
20 April 2022
Consultation start
30 March 2022
Consultation end
20 April 2022
Last date for comments
20 April 2022
Target decision date
23 May 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
6

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 2: Medium 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.

Source: Luton

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