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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,619 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Jun 1997 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 at Booths, Oubas Hill, ULVERSTON, LA12 7LY
Received 17 May 2021OS Field No 1700, Adjacent to A6, BEETHAM, LA7 7BQ
Received 29 Sept 2017SITE ADJACENT TO OCTOBER HOUSE, HIGH STREET, MORLAND, PENRITH, CA10 3AS
Received 15 Feb 2018THORNLEA, NICHOLSON LANE, PENRITH, CA11 7UJ
Received 1 Feb 2019THE AUCTION MART, NORTH LONSDALE TERRACE, ULVERSTON, LA12 9AU
Received 12 Sept 2003K Village, Lound Road, KENDAL, LA9 7DZ
Received 4 Jul 2017Low Fellside, KENDAL, LA9 4NH
Received 24 Apr 2018LAND BETWEEN NR SHERIFF PARK, PRIESTCLOSE LANE RAILWAY LINE, GREAT STRICKLAND, PENRITH
Received 2 Aug 2000HILL HOUSE, FELL LANE, PENRITH, CA11 8BJ
Received 28 Oct 2022UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE NEWTON RIGG, NEWTON REIGNY, PENRITH
Received 15 Feb 2002Hillside, Main Road, Endmoor, KENDAL, LA8 0ET
Received 10 Nov 2023THE SURGERY THE WHITE HOUSE & THE SMITHY, HIGH HESKET, CARLISLE
Received 3 Dec 1997COURTYARD COTTAGE, THE SQUARE, CARTMEL, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 6QB
Received 14 Nov 2005MEADOW VIEW, COLBY, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6BD
Received 4 Oct 2023BLOCK F2, PENRITH NEW SQUARES, PENRITH
Received 19 Mar 201353 Stramongate, KENDAL, LA9 4BH
Received 10 Sept 20206 Wordsworth Terrace Drovers Lane PENRITH CA11 7QT
Received 2 Jul 2025CLOVER LEA, WARTBARROW LANE,, ALLITHWAITE
Received 12 Nov 1997NOBLES REST BUNGALOW, MAUDE STREET, KENDAL, LA9 4QD
Received 2 Jul 2012TOWN HEAD BARN, GREAT STRICKLAND
Received 18 Jul 2000121 Station Road, Cark-In-Cartmel, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7NY
Received 26 Sept 2018Shrublands, 43 Carter Road, Kents Bank, GRANGE OVER SANDS, LA11 7AG
Received 2 Mar 2018GILLINGGATE, KENDAL, LA9 4JE
Received 5 Dec 201221 Hawthorn Way, KENDAL, LA9 7TD
Received 17 Mar 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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