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Casablanca 2 Wild Cherry Drive Luton LU1 3UH

25/01137/TPOSWorks to protected treesApproved

Approved on 27 January 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to trees: T7 - Holm Oak: Reduce back to former pruning points every 2 years in order to maintain clearance; T6 - Holm Oak: Reduce back to former pruning points; T1 - Beech; T4 - Beech: Reduce back to former pruning points, reshape as necessary. Remove any major dead wood; T5 - Beech: Reduce back to former pruning points, reshape as necessary. Remove any major dead wood.

Received
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
FARLEY
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target16 Dec
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Casablanca 2 Wild Cherry Drive Luton LU1 3UH. Luton has handled 65 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

97% of trees 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 3UH
Application type
Works to protected trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Consultation expiry
19 November 2025
Consultation start
29 October 2025
Consultation end
19 November 2025
Last date for comments
19 November 2025
Target decision date
16 December 2025
Permission expires
27 January 2031

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Nan Wang
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
5

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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