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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,352 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Jun 2000 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
LAND TO REAR OF 8 STRICKLANDGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4ND
Received 5 Apr 2005High Head Castle Ivegill CARLISLE CA4 0PN
Received 30 May 2025Kents Bank Hotel 96 Kentsford Road GRANGE-OVER-SANDS LA11 7BB
Received 27 May 2025Dalton House Burton CARNFORTH LA6 1NH
Received 6 Jul 202664 Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4TF
Received 8 Jun 2016Temple Bank, Beetham, MILNTHORPE, Cumbria, LA7 7AL
Received 15 Nov 202284 Soutergate ULVERSTON LA12 7ES
Received 15 Apr 20259 BEECH BANK, ULVERSTON, LA12 7EZ
Received 5 Mar 20131 KENT PARK AVENUE, KENDAL, LA9 5JT
Received 26 Apr 2005LAND AT CROSSFIELD FARM, PENRITH, CA11 8RP
Received 30 Mar 2020St Charles Presbytery, Kents Bank Road, GRANGE over SANDS, LA11 7EY
Received 8 Oct 2015HOLME PARK, HOLME, LANCS, LA6 1QP
Received 30 Mar 2006Land to the north of Cooper House Farm, and adjacent to the east side of the A6, Selside, KENDAL, LA8 9LD
Received 3 Feb 2015PINFOLD, NICHOLSON LANE, PENRITH, CA11 7UL
Received 17 Jan 2018OMEGA PROTEINS PENRITH LTD, PROCESSING PLANT, PENRITH, CA11 0BX
Received 21 Nov 2022PETER ROSS ELECTRICAL, 9 KING STREET, ULVERSTON, LA12 7DZ
Received 28 Feb 2005REDWOOD, 1 KINN BARNS, NEW HUTTON, KENDAL, LA8 0AZ
Received 25 Oct 2012Birbeck House Blencarn Penrith CA10 1TX
Received 22 Aug 2023PLOT 4, HARTNESS ROAD, GILWILLY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PENRITH
Received 9 Sept 2004BREWERY ARTS CENTRE, HIGHGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4HE
Received 5 Jun 20032 Summer Hill, KENDAL, Cumbria, LA9 4JU
Received 23 Mar 2023BOLTON MEMORIAL HALL, BOLTON, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6AR
Received 23 Sept 2021Stainton Green Farm, Stainton with Adgarley, ULVERSTON, LA13 0NP
Received 25 Aug 2017W M Morrison Queen Katherines Avenue KENDAL LA9 6DU
Received 1 Nov 2024Records 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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