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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,369 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
MITRE HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4QT
Received 7 Apr 2016GREYSTONE HOUSE FARM, KINGS MEABURN
Received 21 Jan 2002KIRKBY THORE WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION, KIRKBY THORE, PENRITH
Received 14 Oct 2010CINDER OVENS, KENDAL
Received 24 Jun 2004THE MEETING HOUSE, QUAKERS LANE, SOCKBRIDGE, PENRITH, CA10 2JR
Received 2 Sept 2020British Telecom, Blackhall Road, KENDAL, LA9 4BT
Received 19 Aug 2016BEACON LODGE, FELL LANE, PENRITH, CA11 8BJ
Received 25 May 200441 Woodland Road, ULVERSTON, LA12 0DX
Received 1 Jun 2016BAINES PADDOCK, HAVERTHWAITE, ULVERSTON, LA12 8PF
Received 23 Mar 201286 NORTH LONSDALE ROAD, ULVERSTON
Received 27 Jan 2003HILLCOTE, 80 GILLINGGATE, KENDAL
Received 22 Feb 2001Greenfield Lodge, Aynsome Road, Cartmel, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 6PS
Received 26 Mar 2021OLD MANSION HOUSE, EAMONT BRIDGE, PENRITH, CA10 2BX
Received 19 May 2014Middle Birkby Farm, Cark In Cartmel, Grange-Over-Sands, LA11 7NP
Received 30 May 2014LOCKTHWAITE, NATEBY, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4JR
Received 13 Sept 2018Land adjacent to 3 Oubas Hill, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7LA
Received 19 May 2014BECKBANK BARN, SALKELD DYKES, GREAT SALKELD, PENRITH, CA11 9LL
Received 14 Jul 2014Near to Acorn Lodge (Formally Chez Nous) Sedbergh Road KENDAL LA9 6AH
Received 16 Dec 2024CHAPELS FARMHOUSE, CHAPELS, KIRKBY-IN-FURNESS, LA177XY
Received 18 Jul 2003Outside 1 Mill Close Cark-in-Cartmel GRANGE-OVER-SANDS LA11 7PB
Received 11 Dec 2025Land between villages of Grizebeck and Chapels, Cumbria
Received 9 Mar 202231 BARN HOLME, KENDAL, LA9 5LP
Received 1 Oct 2003THE SWAN, LITTLE URSWICK
Received 3 Dec 2002THE BLACK BULL, THE SQUARE, SANDFORD, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6NR
Received 15 Jan 2014Records 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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