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Hurkan Sayman And Co 2D Luton Road Luton Chatham Medway ME4 5AA

MC/25/0018Retail to residentialApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 30 April 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition

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

Proposal

Prior notification for proposed change of use from commercial (Class E) to an additional ground floor flat (Class C)

Received
8 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Luton
Agent
Design Quarter UK Ltd
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.6 Mar
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 112 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Hurkan Sayman And Co 2D Luton Road Luton Chatham Medway ME4 5AA. Medway has handled 5,390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Luton. We hold 450 applications in total for the ME4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
ME4 5AA
Application type
Retail to residential
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2025
Consultation expiry
6 March 2025
Consultation start
13 February 2025
Consultation end
6 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
31 January 2025
Last date for comments
6 March 2025
Target decision date
30 April 2025
Permission expires
30 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Design Quarter UK Ltd
Agent address
30 Fieldfare Drive Kent Maidstone ME15 6XL

Planning decision

Statutory period
112 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 January 2025
Site notice end
31 January 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13677257
Documents
12
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Luton
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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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