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Land Opposite Whitbread House Flowers Way Luton

24/00559/AMENDNon Material AmendmentsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 May 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Development of the vacant site to provide 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). Non-Material Amendment of planning permission 23/01249/MMAMD dated 12th March 2024 (Change the description of development, to the following: Development of the vacant site to provide residential units (Class C3) and provision at ground floor level, with associated landscaping and amenity space, car and cycle parking, refuse storage, access and works).

Received
8 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received8 May
  2. Validated8 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Jun
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Opposite Whitbread House Flowers Way Luton. Luton has handled 188 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across SOUTH.

76% of amendment 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
Non Material Amendments
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 May 2024
Target decision date
5 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Iceni Projects Da Vinci House 44 Saffron Hill London EC1N 8FH

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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