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79 Halfway Avenue Luton LU4 8RA

25/00988/LAWPApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 November 2025

Council decision: Application Permitted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness of proposed development/use - Conversion of garage to habitable room and alteration of hipped roof to gable end, construction of rear dormer window and 2 front roof lights to facilitate loft conversion

Received
5 September 2025
Ward
CHALLNEY
  1. Received5 Sep
  2. Validated6 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Nov

Decided in 44 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a loft conversion at 79 Halfway Avenue Luton LU4 8RA. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than Luton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

Application details

Postcode
LU4 8RA
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Claudiu Bica

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

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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