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Land Opposite Whitbread House Flowers Way Luton

24/00197/DOCDischarge of Multiple ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 August 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Development of the vacant site to provide 380 residential units (Class C3) and flexible commercial floorspace (Class E/F) provision at ground floor level, with associated landscaping and amenity space, car and cycle parking, refuse storage, access and works. Minor Material amendment of planning permission 22/00195/FUL dated 11th October 2023 - (To vary condition nos. 2, 13, 17 and 19 to allow for additional residential units, alterations to layout and massing of buildings and associated coordination of landscape proposals, minor facade changes to proposed buildings, and the introduction of a second stair in each building). Discharge of conditions 3 (Construction environmental method plan ), 15 (Remediation strategy), 17 (Surface water drainage scheme) and 25 (Excavations) of 23/01249/MMAMD dated 12th March 2024.

Received
14 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated14 Feb
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 190 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Land Opposite Whitbread House Flowers Way Luton. Luton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 190 days, 19 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 8 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
380

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 February 2024
Consultation expiry
18 March 2024
Consultation start
26 February 2024
Consultation end
18 March 2024
Last date for comments
18 March 2024
Target decision date
10 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Iceni Projects Da Vinci House 44 Saffron Hill London EC1N 8FN

Planning decision

Case officer
Clive Inwards
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
16
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Land opposite Whitbread House, Flowers Way, Luton LU1 3GBRegister 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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    26 Jun

    Development of the vacant site to provide residential units (Class C3) and flexible commercial floorspace…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions25/00721/DOC
  2. 2024
    8 May

    Development of the vacant site to provide residential units (Class C3) and flexible commercial floorspace…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)24/00558/MMAMD
  3. 2024
    8 May

    Development of the vacant site to provide residential units (Class C3) and flexible commercial floorspace…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)24/00559/AMEND
  4. 2024
    14 Feb

    Development of the vacant site to provide 380 residential units (Class C3) and flexible commercial floorspace…

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions24/00197/DOC
  5. 2023
    23 Oct

    Development of the vacant site to provide residential units (Class C3) and flexible commercial floorspace…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)Part of23/01249/MMAMD

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