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Land Adjacent To Auction House Crescent Road Luton LU2 0AH

24/01428/TEMPApplication for a temporary durationApproved

Approved on 27 March 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

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

Temporary change of use from car park to airport parking for a period of 2 years (Retrospective)

Received
19 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
HIGH TOWN
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target28 Mar
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 98 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Land Adjacent To Auction House Crescent Road Luton LU2 0AH. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 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.

Application details

Postcode
LU2 0AH
Application type
Application for a temporary duration
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2024
Consultation expiry
1 February 2025
Consultation start
9 January 2025
Consultation end
30 January 2025
Neighbour consultation start
8 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
1 February 2025
Last date for comments
1 February 2025
Target decision date
28 March 2025
Permission expires
27 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Optimis Consulting 16 St. Cuthberts Street Bedford MK40 3JG

Planning decision

Statutory period
99 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

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