Skip to content

The Atrium Park Street West Luton LU1 3BE

24/00551/PACBHSPA comm/bus/serv/hotel to st. funded schWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 1 July 2024

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Request for a determination as to whether prior approval is required under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class T of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - Change of use from a use Class E (commercial, business and service) of Schedule 2 to the Use Classes Order to a use Class F1(a) (State-Funded School) - The request is to change of use from Office to Learning and non-residential educational use.

Received
7 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated7 May
  3. Consult.18 Jun
  4. Target2 Jul
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at The Atrium Park Street West Luton LU1 3BE. Luton has handled 185 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 55 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 5 listed buildings 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.

82% of outline applications at Luton Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.Planning something similar? See what gets approved on your street

Application details

Postcode
LU1 3BE
Application type
PA comm/bus/serv/hotel to st. funded sch
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 May 2024
Consultation expiry
18 June 2024
Consultation start
28 May 2024
Consultation end
18 June 2024
Neighbour consultation start
28 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
18 June 2024
Last date for comments
21 June 2024
Target decision date
2 July 2024
Permission expires
1 July 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Design Plan Build Services Ltd 32 Chapel Road Flitwick Bedford MK45 1EB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
29 May 2024

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: 21 and 23, Park Street WestOn or next to this site · +3 more
  • Brownfield land register: 46 - 52 Park Street, Luton LU1 3HPRegister 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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

Track this application

Get email alerts when there is a planning decision or status change.

Get email alerts near LU1

New planning applications delivered to your inbox daily.

Around this site

Discuss this application on r/PlanningPermissionUK

For applicants and trades

Planning something similar?

See what the council approved and refused for changes of use on your street. Pick your home and get the evidence before you pay for drawings.

See what gets approved on your streetBuying this property? Report on this address