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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,210 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Finley Drive, KENDAL, LA9 6DN
Received 14 Aug 2020Somersby 7 Horncop Lane KENDAL LA9 4SR
Received 12 Jul 2024MILL HOUSE, BLACK BULL LANE, BROUGH, CA17 4DU
Received 3 Nov 2017North Lodge, Station Square, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 6EH
Received 18 Sept 2023COURTYARD HOUSE, 5 FAIRBANK, KIRKBY LONSDALE, LA6 2BD
Received 10 Jul 2006BANK FARM, CROSBY RAVENSWORTH, PENRITH, CA10 3JB
Received 13 Dec 2012NEW INN YARD, GARTH HEADS, KENDAL, LA9 4JL
Received 13 Jul 2006My Kebab 37 Middlegate PENRITH CA11 7PT
Received 30 Oct 20251 Rock Cottages Main Road Baycliff ULVERSTON LA12 9RP
Received 6 May 202627 Victoria Road, ULVERSTON, LA12 0EP
Received 27 Jan 2021HIGHFIELD FARM, BLENCARN, PENRITH, CA10 1TX
Received 26 Feb 201314 MURTON VIEW, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6RF
Received 23 Jun 2022Coat Green Farm Burton CARNFORTH LA6 1JG
Received 8 Jul 2024White Gate Glebe Road KENDAL LA9 5BY
Received 20 Nov 2025CROFT ENDS FARM, CROFT ENDS, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6JW
Received 9 Nov 2020WHITBY BARN, KINGS MEABURN, PENRITH, CA10 3BS
Received 6 Aug 20182 BEEZON ROAD, KENDAL, LA9 6BW
Received 13 Oct 2003CROFT HOUSE, LAMONBY, PENRITH, CA11 9SS
Received 23 Apr 2018STONEBARN COTTAGE, LOW GALLIGILL, NENTHEAD, ALSTON, CA9 3LW
Received 30 Jan 202372 Paddock Drive, KENDAL, Cumbria, LA9 5FH
Received 16 Feb 2023PART OF FIELD PARCEL 0086, OUSBY, PENRITH
Received 25 Nov 2004Solmaine Dufton APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND CA16 6DF
Received 4 Jan 2024OLIVER'S TASTY BITES, 33 GREAT DOCKRAY, PENRITH, CA11 7BN
Received 24 Aug 2017The Tree House, Fairbank, Kirkby Lonsdale, CARNFORTH, LA6 2DU
Received 17 Mar 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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