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25 Cardiff Road Luton LU1 1PP

24/00136/PAEDWEPrior - Class E to ResiRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 5 April 2024

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (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 business floor space (Class E) to a two bedroom flat (Class C3)

Received
31 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated9 Feb
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target5 Apr
  5. Decided5 Apr

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 25 Cardiff Road Luton LU1 1PP. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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 1PP
Application type
Prior - Class E to Resi
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 February 2024
Consultation expiry
5 March 2024
Consultation start
13 February 2024
Consultation end
5 March 2024
Neighbour consultation start
13 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
5 March 2024
Last date for comments
19 March 2024
Target decision date
5 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
C W & R C Shrimplin, Achitects & Town Planners 11 Cardiff Road Luton LU1 1PP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 February 2024

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 18-22 Rothesay RoadRegister site at or near this address · +3 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 (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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