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Whitehill Durler Gardens Luton LU1 3TA

25/00585/FULHHFUL HouseholdApproved
Full

Approved on 24 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)9 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of a two storey basement located to side garden with platform scissor lift creating car access to basement and a part new meshed grassed driveway. Creation of an underground access tunnel from existing basement of house down into new basement.

Received
23 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
FARLEY
  1. Received23 May
  2. Validated23 May
  3. Consult.9 Jul
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided24 Dec

Decided in 215 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Whitehill Durler Gardens Luton LU1 3TA. Luton has handled 619 applications of this type. This one was decided in 215 days, 23 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across FARLEY. We hold 1,824 applications in total for the LU1 postcode area.

80% of full 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 3TA
Application type
FUL Household
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 May 2025
Consultation expiry
9 July 2025
Consultation start
18 June 2025
Consultation end
9 July 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 June 2025
Neighbour consultation end
4 July 2025
Last date for comments
9 July 2025
Target decision date
24 December 2025
Permission expires
24 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Perry M Jones Ltd The Studio 58A Tennyson Road Harpenden AL5 4BB

Planning decision

Case officer
Jonathan Hill
Statutory period
215 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 June 2025
Site notice start
11 June 2025

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    23 May

    Construction of a two storey basement located to side garden with platform scissor lift creating car access…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/00585/FULHH
  2. 2025
    23 May

    Works to Listed Building - Creation of two storey basement located to side garden with platform scissor lift…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside25/00586/LBC

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