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Lester Hall 48 - 54 John Street Luton

24/00059/DOCDischarge of Multiple ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 30 April 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion and change of use from student accommodation Class (C2) to 14 flats (13 x three bedroom) and (1 x two bedroom) flats (Class C3). Discharge of conditions 3 (Materials), 4 (Construction and environmental management plan), 5 (Details and specifications of the plant equipment), 6 (External lighting), 7 (Landscaping scheme), 8 (Landscape management plan), 11 (Refuse and recycling management plan), 12 (Site security measures) and 13 (Signage details strategy) of Planning permission 21/01296/FUL dated 28th December 2023

Received
12 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received12 Jan
  2. Validated25 Jan
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target5 Apr
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 96 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Lester Hall 48 - 54 John Street Luton. Luton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 8 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in the Plaiters Lea conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across SOUTH.

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

Application type
Discharge of Multiple Conditions
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
14

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 January 2024
Consultation expiry
16 April 2024
Consultation start
26 March 2024
Consultation end
16 April 2024
Last date for comments
16 April 2024
Target decision date
5 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Lavata Group Limited 64 Anderson Drive Whitnash Leamington Spa CV31 2RN

Planning decision

Statutory period
71 days

Additional information

Documents
26
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Plaiters' Lea The Hat District Conservation Area 3
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Plaiters Lea, Town Centre
  • Brownfield land register: 39-51 John Street, Luton LU1 2JERegister site at or near this address · +2 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 (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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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