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59 Hitchin Road Luton LU2 0EL

24/00984/PAEDWEPrior - Class E to ResiApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 15 October 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (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 the ground floor office (Class E) into 2 bedroom flat (Class C3)

Received
20 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
HIGH TOWN
  1. Received20 Aug
  2. Validated20 Aug
  3. Consult.24 Sep
  4. Target15 Oct
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 59 Hitchin Road Luton LU2 0EL. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across HIGH TOWN. We hold 963 applications in total for the LU2 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LU2 0EL
Application type
Prior - Class E to Resi
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 August 2024
Consultation expiry
24 September 2024
Consultation start
3 September 2024
Consultation end
24 September 2024
Neighbour consultation start
3 September 2024
Neighbour consultation end
24 September 2024
Last date for comments
7 October 2024
Target decision date
15 October 2024
Permission expires
15 October 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Suite 1 Hardy House Northbridge Road Berkhamsted HP4 1EF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 September 2024

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Hitchin Road car park, Luton LU2 0ELRegister 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.

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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