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Market Hill George Street Luton

26/00049/LAWPCertificate of lawfulness (Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 March 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness of proposed development/use - Existing paving to be removed and replace with a new design, to incorporate hard and soft landscaping, surface water drainage and street furniture

Received
15 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
SOUTH
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated29 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Market Hill George Street Luton. Luton has handled 185 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Luton's typical decision time. The site is in the Town Centre conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across SOUTH.

82% of outline 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

Application type
Certificate of lawfulness (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 January 2026
Target decision date
26 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Project Design & Delivery Team Town Hall Upper George Street Luton LU1 2BQ

Planning decision

Case officer
Mrs Naila Malik
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Town Centre Conservation Area 1Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: 21, George StreetOn or next to this site · +5 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: George Street/Town CentrePart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: 12-14 Park StreetRegister 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 (19)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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