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Unit 10 Finway Luton LU1 1TR

25/00672/LAWPCertificate of lawfulness (Proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 18 September 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed development - Conversion of part of the ground floor (2000 sq.ft.) of the existing warehouse to be used as a shop (Use Class 'E') (ancillary to the warehouse ). Construction of internal mezzanine floor within Unit 10, and associated amendments to the front elevation. Shop will stock charity shop products i.e. furniture, bric-a-brac, clothing, toys etc. No machinery to be installed. Trading hours proposed for the shop are 9-6pm Monday to Saturday and Sunday 11-5pm.

Received
12 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
DALLOW
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated25 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Sep
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Unit 10 Finway Luton LU1 1TR. Luton has handled 185 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across DALLOW. We hold 1,824 applications in total for the LU1 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
LU1 1TR
Application type
Certificate of lawfulness (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 July 2025
Target decision date
19 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Mrs Naila Malik
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
10
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Land at Kingsway (2023)
  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Luton

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