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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,225 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Aug 2000 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Appleby Grammar School Battlebarrow Appleby-in-westmorland CA16 6XU
Received 28 Apr 2026BANK HOUSE, ARMATHWAITE, CARLISLE, CA4 9TJ
Received 25 Apr 2013Flixton House, Fairfield Lane, KENDAL, LA9 5ER
Received 27 May 2021OLD STABLES, WARCOP, CA16 6NX
Received 30 Sept 20207 MARKET SQUARE, KIRKBY LONSDALE, LA6 2AN
Received 8 Mar 2006LAND BESIDE 22 LAIKIN VIEW, CALTHWAITE, PENRITH, CA11 9QW
Received 1 Feb 2016THE BYRE, LEASES, WAITBY, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4HQ
Received 9 Sept 2019KNOTT VIEW BARN, FARLETON, LA6 1PB
Received 9 Dec 20058 HALL GRANGE, BOLTON, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6WA
Received 18 Nov 2005LAND BETWEEN NOS 2 & 3 UNION LANE, ULVERSTON, LA12 7BU
Received 23 Dec 2003TOWN END FARM, HACKTHORPE, PENRITH, CA10 2HX
Received 25 Jan 2022VILLAGE HALL, NEWBIGGIN, PENRITH, CA11 0HT
Received 11 May 2020SANDPIPERS, CROOKWHEEL, CARK IN CARTMEL, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7PS
Received 19 May 2006New Shippon, Preston Patrick Hall, Preston Patrick, MILNTHORPE, LA7 7NY
Received 2 Nov 2018Corner of Oxfam, 46 Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4TF
Received 31 Jul 2014SPRING BANK, NICHOLSON LANE, PENRITH, CA11 7UL
Received 28 Aug 2015LAND NORTH OF THE A66, STAINTON, PENRITH, CA11 0EB
Received 15 Nov 2023TOWN HEAD, MILBURN, PENRITH, CUMBRIA, CA10 1TN
Received 22 Dec 2011FIELD AT MILL GATE, GREAT SALKELD, PENRITH
Received 10 Oct 20175 PARK VIEW, CARTMEL, GRANGE over SANDS, LA11 6QF
Received 23 Oct 2012LAZONBY BOWLING CLUB, RECTORY ROAD, LAZONBY, PENRITH, CA10 1BX
Received 21 Jul 2017LAND AT SALTCOATES HALL, ARNSIDE
Received 20 Jan 2003Meadoway Edenhall Penrith CA11 8SX
Received 7 Feb 202541 Springfield Road, Ulverston, LA12 0EJ
Received 19 Sept 2015Records 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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