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Whitehill Durler Gardens Luton LU1 3TA

25/01050/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 May 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use from D1 (b) Day nursery for 12 children to C3 Residential Ancillary use with alterations to create a room in the roof space with 2 front facing dormer windows.

Received
25 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
FARLEY
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target1 May
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 218 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Whitehill Durler Gardens Luton LU1 3TA. Luton has handled 188 applications of this type. This one was decided in 218 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.

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 3TA
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2025
Consultation expiry
11 February 2026
Consultation start
2 October 2025
Consultation end
11 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
2 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
26 October 2025
Last date for comments
5 November 2025
Target decision date
1 May 2026
Permission expires
1 May 2029

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
218 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 October 2025
Site notice start
10 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
11
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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    1 Oct

    Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Development - Loft conversion of 2 roof spaces to habitable rooms with…

    PendingCertificate of lawfulness (Proposed)Filed alongside25/01073/LAWP
  2. 2025
    25 Sep

    Change of use from D1 (b) Day nursery for 12 children to C3 Residential Ancillary use with alterations to…

    This applicationApprovedAmendment25/01050/COU

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