Balfour House 50 Guildford Street Luton LU1 2PA
Approved on 19 December 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Works to Listed Building: Internal repair and refurbishment to Grade II listed property following flood damage.
- Received
- 5 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Luton Borough Council
- Ward
- SOUTH
- ReceivedReceived5 Nov
- ValidatedValidated5 Nov
- Consult.Consultation5 Dec
- TargetTarget Date31 Dec
- DecidedDecided19 Dec
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Balfour House 50 Guildford Street Luton LU1 2PA. Luton has handled 23 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.
100% of heritage 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 2PA
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 5 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 5 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 10 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 31 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 19 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Glaston Hall Spring Lane Glaston Oakham LE15 9BZ
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Mrs Naila Malik
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 19 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 19 November 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Plaiters' Lea The Hat District Conservation Area 3Part of the site
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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.
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