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2 George Street West Luton LU1 2BJ

25/00376/DOCDischarge of Multiple ConditionsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 25 July 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (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 building from a use Class E (commercial, business and service) of Schedule 2 to the Use Classes Order to a use Class C3 (dwellinghouses) to create 8 units. Discharge of conditions 3 (Acoustic design) and 4 (Construction method plan) of Planning permission 23/00766/PAEDWE dated 23rd August 2023.

Received
3 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received3 Apr
  2. Validated3 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 113 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at 2 George Street West Luton LU1 2BJ. Luton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in the Town Centre conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across SOUTH. We hold 1,824 applications in total for the LU1 postcode area.

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

Postcode
LU1 2BJ
Application type
Discharge of Multiple Conditions
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 April 2025
Consultation expiry
16 May 2025
Consultation start
25 April 2025
Consultation end
16 May 2025
Last date for comments
16 May 2025
Target decision date
25 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Plan & Build Ltd 23 Brackendale Grove Luton LU3 2LT

Planning decision

Case officer
Gemma Clark
Statutory period
113 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Town Centre Conservation Area 1
  • Article 4 direction: Luton Town Centre and Surrounds (2023)
  • Heritage at Risk Register: George Street/Town Centre
  • Brownfield land register: 55 George Street, Luton LU1 2AL and 2B George Street West, Luton lU1 2BXRegister 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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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© 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.

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    28 Jun

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