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Car Park 37 - 41 Cheapside Luton

26/00675/LAWERefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 21 September 2026

Council decision: Application Refused32 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness of existing use - Existing building works/material operations undertaken for the purpose of implementing planning permission 21/00047/FUL at Car Park 37-41 Cheapside, Luton, LU1 2HN. The works include site enclosure/security fencing, discontinuance of the previous car park use, setting out/laying out of the site/building footprint, site access arrangements and drainage-related works. The certificate is sought to confirm that the approved development has been lawfully commenced and that planning permission 21/00047/FUL remains extant.

Received
24 June 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 3 November 2026
Ward
CENTRAL
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Sep
  5. Decided21 Sep

Decided in 66 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Car Park 37 - 41 Cheapside Luton. Luton has handled 2,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Luton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across CENTRAL.

Application details

Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2026
Target decision date
22 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Franc Genley

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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