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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,189 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
THE GRANARY, YEW TREE FARM, ALLITHWAITE, LA11 7RH
Received 21 Jun 200586 Grasmere Crescent, KENDAL, LA9 6LN
Received 10 Mar 2015The Elephant Southwaite Carlisle CA4 0NA
Received 30 May 2024Yard to rear of Penrith Farmers & Kidds Devonshire Chambers Devonshire Street Penrith CA11 7SS
Received 5 Aug 202425 FOWL ING LANE, KENDAL
Received 6 Mar 2003Rake Lane ULVERSTON LA12 9ET
Received 13 Oct 2026KENDAL GOLF CLUB, THE HEIGHTS, KENDAL, LA9 4PQ
Received 23 Sept 2005THE MAINS, KIRKOSWALD, PENRITH, CA10 1DH
Received 17 Feb 2012BOXWOOD HOUSE, HARTLEY, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4JH
Received 20 Apr 2021MOOR COTTAGE, LANGWATHBY, PENRITH, CA10 1NB
Received 19 Jun 2023Nichol Ridge, Black Dyke Road, Arnside, CARNFORTH, LA5 0HL
Received 19 Aug 2019DAVIDSONS GARAGE, SCOTLAND ROAD, PENRITH, CA11 7NR
Received 6 Sept 202248 LARCH GROVE, KENDAL
Received 14 Apr 20039 MURTON VIEW, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6RF
Received 19 Mar 20159 BEACON CLOSE, PENRITH, CA11 8QH
Received 9 Feb 2023Land to the west of Oxenholme Road, KENDAL
Received 29 Apr 2016High Carley, Oldfield, Docker, KENDAL, LA8 9BJ
Received 16 May 2016Land off Brigsteer Road, Brigsteer Road, KENDAL, LA9 5DZ
Received 18 Jan 2023Upper Rawcroft Arthur Street Penrith CA11 7TU
Received 9 Jun 2026Land near Granary Cottage Nenthead ALSTON CA9 3PN
Received 24 May 2024LAND ADJACENT TO 35 VICTORIA SQUARE, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CUMBRIA, CA17 4QA
Received 30 Jun 2011Beach Haven, Redhills Road, Arnside, Cumbria, LA5 0AX
Received 23 Mar 2015Badgers Sett, Windermere Road, GRANGE over SANDS, LA11 6JT
Received 3 Jul 2018LANGWATHBY HALL, LANGWATHBY, PENRITH, CA10 1LW
Received 28 Oct 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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