Lester Hall 48 - 54 John Street Luton
Approved on 2 December 2024
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion and change of use from student accommodation Class (C2) to 14 flats (13 x three bedroom) and (1 x two bedroom) flats (Class C3). Discharge of condition 17 (Prohibition of parking) of Planning permission 21/01296/FUL dated 28th December 2023.
- Received
- 3 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Luton Borough Council
- Ward
- SOUTH
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated7 Oct
- Consult.Consultation11 Nov
- TargetTarget Date2 Dec
- DecidedDecided2 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Lester Hall 48 - 54 John Street Luton. Luton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in the Plaiters Lea conservation area. There have been 3 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
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 14
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 11 November 2024
- Consultation start
- 21 October 2024
- Consultation end
- 11 November 2024
- Last date for comments
- 11 November 2024
- Target decision date
- 2 December 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Lavata Group Limited 64 Anderson Drive Whitnash Leamington Spa CV31 2RN
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Plaiters' Lea The Hat District Conservation Area 3
- Brownfield land register: 39-51 John Street, Luton LU1 2JERegister site at or near this address · +2 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
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