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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Westmorland and Furness Council. Covers the former Barrow-in-Furness, Eden and South Lakeland council areas.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Westmorland and Furness website
0 approved · 0 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Aug 2000 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 20 Jun 200317 COOPERS CLOSE, HIGH HESKET, CARLISLE, CA4 0JD
Received 21 Sept 201538 SOMME AVENUE, FLOOKBURGH, LA11 7LT
Received 13 Dec 2005WESTFIELDS, CULGAITH, PENRITH, CA10 1QT
Received 28 Jan 2004OS Field Number 4283, Cartmel, GRANGE OVER SANDS, LA11 7NR
Received 9 Nov 2016Perry Bracken Barn Kirkby In Furness LA17 7TR
Received 18 Mar 2025Greenbank Broughton Beck ULVERSTON LA12 7PJ
Received 9 Apr 20254 Kings Court Kirkby Lonsdale CARNFORTH LA6 2BP
Received 18 Mar 2025LAND OFF CHRISTIAN HEAD, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 30 Jan 2017CROFT HOUSE, NUN CLOSE, ARMATHWAITE, CARLISLE, CA4 9TJ
Received 1 Sept 2005Land opposite Branthouse, Woodhouse Lane, Woodhouse Hill, Heversham, MILNTHORPE, LA7 7NQ
Received 18 Mar 2019LAND OFF CHRISTIAN HEAD, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 2 Dec 20206 Broom Close KENDAL LA9 6BN
Received 21 Jun 2024Balandra Skelton Penrith CA11 9TE
Received 7 Apr 2025GLAXO SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB, QUEENS STREET, ULVERSTON
Received 19 Oct 2006WESTMORLAND MOTORWAY SERVICES TEBAY WEST, TEBAY WEST SERVICE AREA, TEBAY, PENRITH, CA10 3SB
Received 31 May 2023DOCKER GARTH FARM, DOCKER
Received 12 May 2003BECKSIDE COTTAGE, ORTON, PENRITH, CA10 3RX
Received 21 Aug 2006Land to the south of Moor Lane, FLOOKBURGH, LA11 7LE
Received 27 Jul 20164 COACH CROFT, GREAT STRICKLAND, PENRITH, CA10 3BF
Received 28 Jun 2023LAND SOUTH OF THE GREEN, NATEBY, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4JR
Received 4 Jul 2016Thrimby Grange Thrimby PENRITH CA10 3QH
Received 9 Jul 202536 Mitchelgate, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 2BE
Received 27 Mar 2017Jeeves Bank, Fernleigh Road, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7HT
Received 21 Jul 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Westmorland and Furness Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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