Land Adjacent 17-35 Hart Hill Lane & Hartwood, 44 Hart Hill Drive Luton LU2 0BA
Approved on 28 March 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions
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Proposal
Works to trees - G006 Mixed trees - crown lift by 2.5-4 metres over car park; Fell to ground T023 Sycamore, T025 Beech, T032 Sycamore, T033 Lime, T034 Beech, T017 Beech; and T039 Hazel - coppice to allow to regenerate due to oversize
- Received
- 4 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Luton Borough Council
- Ward
- HIGH TOWN
- ReceivedReceived4 Dec
- ValidatedValidated2 Jan
- Consult.Consultation27 Jan
- TargetTarget Date28 Mar
- DecidedDecided28 Mar
Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Land Adjacent 17-35 Hart Hill Lane & Hartwood, 44 Hart Hill Drive Luton LU2 0BA. Luton has handled 65 applications of this type. This one was decided in 114 days, 8 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. 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.
97% of trees 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
- Postcode
- LU2 0BA
- Application type
- Works to protected trees
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 January 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 January 2025
- Consultation start
- 6 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 27 January 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 28 March 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- John O'Conner 2 Great North Road Welwyn AL6 0PL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 85 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (23)
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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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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