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Hat Gardens Former Silver Street Car Park Silver Street Luton LU1 1EF

23/00558/DOCDischarge of Multiple ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 July 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of five suspended Flamingos on southern back of Open Lea River, with associated feature lighting. Discharge of condition 4 (External lighting) of Planning permission 22/01547/FUL dated 21st April 2023

Received
17 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.7 Jul
  4. Target4 Aug
  5. Decided14 Jul

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Hat Gardens Former Silver Street Car Park Silver Street Luton LU1 1EF. Luton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in the Plaiters Lea conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across SOUTH. We hold 1,823 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 1EF
Application type
Discharge of Multiple Conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2023
Consultation expiry
7 July 2023
Consultation start
16 June 2023
Consultation end
7 July 2023
Last date for comments
7 July 2023
Target decision date
4 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Town Hall Upper George Street Luton LU1 2BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Plaiters' Lea The Hat District Conservation Area 3
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Plaiters Lea, Town Centre
  • Brownfield land register: 37-47 Cheapside, Luton LU1 2HNRegister site at or near this address · +1 more

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    17 May

    Installation of five suspended Flamingos on southern back of Open Lea River, with associated feature…

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions23/00558/DOC
  2. 2022
    30 Nov

    Installation of five suspended Flamingos on southern back of Open Lea River, with associated feature lighting.

    ApprovedFull ApplicationPart of22/01547/FUL

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