On receipt of a planning application, we aim to deal with them within the prescribed timescales and will continue to make requests for very minor changes to ensure developments meet our adopted policies.
We are not able to update you of general progress on your application, However, if you have not heard from us within five days of the target date of the application, contact us by email to get an update and we will provide you with an emailed response.
Email: developmentcontrol@luton.gov.uk
In the event that an application is going to be recommended for refusal, we will in most cases:
- contact the agent (or applicant if there is not an appointed agent) by email
- inform them of the recommendation and the general reasons for refusal
However we will not contact the agent in cases where:
- there is planning history, enforcement case(s) or appeals relating to similar development
- the development would have to be changed so significantly it would need to be done under a fresh application
- development relates to prior approvals and certificates of existing lawfulness
- pre-application advice has already been given
- the development is retrospective or a re-submission
Where the agent is contacted, they will be given three options:
- for the application to be determined in its current form
- to withdraw the application
- to provide an initial 5 week extension of time to allow them to make a formal request for in-application advice