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Wenlock Court Manor Road Luton

25/00694/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 August 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of an existing building that has extant planning approval for Flexible Hotel/ Student Accommodation (Ref. 22/00680/COU) into Temporary Residential Accommodation (Sui Generis). No external alterations, the existing building structure and fabric and site layout will remain the same.

Received
19 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received19 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jul
  3. Consult.4 Aug
  4. Target3 Sep
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Wenlock Court Manor Road Luton. Luton has handled 188 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. There have been 3 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.

76% of amendment 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 3HN
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 July 2025
Consultation expiry
7 August 2025
Consultation start
14 July 2025
Consultation end
4 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
14 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
7 August 2025
Last date for comments
7 August 2025
Target decision date
3 September 2025
Permission expires
22 August 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Luton Council, Project Design & Delivery Team, Inclusive Economy Town Hall Extension Gordon Street Luton LU1 2BQ

Planning decision

Case officer
Mrs Naila Malik
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
29
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Luton Town Centre and Surrounds (2023)

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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