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Unit 1 - Nightingale House 94 Inkerman Street Luton - LU1 1JD

24/00095/PAEDWEPrior - Class E to ResiApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 30 April 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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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 part ground floor from commercial, business and service (Class E) to residential (Class C3) to provide one 2-bed flat.

Received
24 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received24 Jan
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.6 Mar
  4. Target3 May
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 85 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Unit 1 - Nightingale House 94 Inkerman Street Luton - LU1 1JD. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. 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 1JD
Application type
Prior - Class E to Resi
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2024
Consultation expiry
6 March 2024
Consultation start
14 February 2024
Consultation end
6 March 2024
Neighbour consultation start
14 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
6 March 2024
Last date for comments
13 March 2024
Target decision date
3 May 2024
Permission expires
30 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
19 Eastbourne Terrace London W2 6LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
88 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 February 2024

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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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