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1 Dunstable Road Luton LU1 1BB

25/01053/PAEDWEPrior - Class E to ResiApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 19 November 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Request for a determination as to whether prior approval is required under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - Change of use from Commercial (Class E) to 4 residential flats (Class C3) (Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the General Permitted Development Order (as amended 2024)

Received
25 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.3 Nov
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided19 Nov

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 1 Dunstable Road Luton LU1 1BB. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There has been 1 other application 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.

Application details

Postcode
LU1 1BB
Application type
Prior - Class E to Resi
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2025
Consultation expiry
3 November 2025
Consultation start
13 October 2025
Consultation end
3 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
13 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
3 November 2025
Last date for comments
5 November 2025
Target decision date
20 November 2025
Permission expires
19 November 2030

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
1 Southfield Barnet EN5 2AS

Planning decision

Case officer
Gemma Clark
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 15 - 17 Cardiff Road, Luton LU1 1PPRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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