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1B Chester Avenue Luton LU4 9SF

25/00172/LAWPFTLawful proposed development fast trackApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 March 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Development - Conversion and change of use from a 4 bed HMO to a four bedroom house with downstairs elderly bedroom. - Retrospective - FAST TRACK

Received
14 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
CHALLNEY
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 1B Chester Avenue Luton LU4 9SF. Luton has handled 185 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than Luton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across CHALLNEY. We hold 353 applications in total for the LU4 postcode area.

82% of outline 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
LU4 9SF
Application type
Lawful proposed development fast track
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2025
Target decision date
17 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
12 The Crest Luton LU3 2LE

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
1

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

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© 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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