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70 - 78 Collingdon Street Luton LU1 1RX

23/00040/PACOMPrior - Offices to ResiApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 10 March 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval permittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Request for a determination as to whether prior approval is required under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - Change of use of first and second floor of building from office space (Class E) to (C3) residential. (Class MA). The scheme comprises 2 one bedroom and 2 two bedroom new dwellings.

Received
5 January 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target10 Mar
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 64 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 70 - 78 Collingdon Street Luton LU1 1RX. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

Application details

Postcode
LU1 1RX
Application type
Prior - Offices to Resi
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2023
Consultation expiry
6 February 2023
Consultation start
16 January 2023
Consultation end
6 February 2023
Neighbour consultation start
16 January 2023
Neighbour consultation end
6 February 2023
Last date for comments
14 February 2023
Target decision date
10 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Southfield Barnet EN5 2AS

Planning decision

Statutory period
64 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 January 2023

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 80 - 88 Collingdon Street, Luton LU1 1RXRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (22)

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 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

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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