Local Centre Parcel, Linmere phase 1, Waterslade Way and Lime Tree Drive, Houghton Regis LU5 7AS Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Non-material amendment to planning permission (Reserved Matters: following Outline Application (Outline planning permission with the details of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale reserved for later determination. Development to comprise: up to 5,150 dwellings (Use Class C3); up to 202,500 sqm gross of additional development in Use Classes: A1, A2, A3 (retail), A4 (public house), A5 (take away); B1, B2, B8 (offices, industrial and storage and distribution); C1 (hotel), C2 (care home), D1 and D2 (community and leisure); car showroom; data centre; petrol filling station; car parking; primary substation; energy centre; and for the laying out of the buildings; routes and open spaces within the development; and all associated works and operations including but not limited to: demolition; earthworks; engineering operations. All development, works and operations to be in accordance with the Development Parameters Schedule and Plans.) Reserved matters approval sought for layout, scale, appearance, landscaping and access relating to Local Centre Parcel, Phase 1) Amendments sought to the Neighbourhood Centre: 1. Omit all rear eastern retail ground floor windows. 2. Add external rear eastern door to convenience store. 3. Amend convenience store compound external gates, to provide dedicated means of escape door through compound wall to comply with Building Regulations. 4. Enlarge convenience store compound canopy. 5. Add convenience store compound brise soleil. 6. Amend retail rear eastern doors on site / ground floor plans generally from double to single leaf doors. 7. Addition of privacy screen to first floor apartments above convenience store. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved · Last checked 18 Oct 2026
Site constraints 4
Checked on 7 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.
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Important details
- Council
- Central Bedfordshire
- Application type
- Non-material Change to Permission
- Postcode
- LU5 7AS
- Received
- 14 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 20 Nov 2025
- Parish
- Houghton Regis
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 18 Dec 2025
- Decision
- Non-Material Amendment - Granted Conditions or Reasons: View Conditions or Reasons Informative Notes: There are no informative notes
- Appeal
- Dismissed · 27 Aug 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6004344 ↗
- Agent
- Show
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Last counted 18 Oct 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Consultation
- 20 Nov 2025
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5 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
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