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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,642 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Aug 1974 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hill Top View Laverock Hill Mealbank Kendal Cumbria LA8 9EP
Received 18 Mar 2025OASIS LAKELAND FOREST VILLAGE, TEMPLE SOWERBY, PENRITH
Received 5 Jun 2000Chapel Farm Newbiggin Penrith CA11 0HT
Received 19 Jan 2026ASBY HALL FARM, GREAT ASBY, APPLEBY
Received 14 Jun 2000Shalamar Stainton PENRITH CA11 0ES
Received 24 Jun 2026LAND OFF SCAUR LANE, LAZONBY, PENRITH
Received 11 Jul 202359 PRIORY LANE, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
Received 4 Jul 2000FRIARS BOTTOM, NEWBIGGIN-ON-LUNE, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4NS
Received 18 Aug 2014Outerthwaite Farm, Allithwaite Road, Flookburgh, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7JP
Received 25 Mar 2022FORMER JOB CENTRE, SANDES AVENUE, KENDAL, LA9 6BP
Received 6 Dec 200419 WATTSFIELD AVENUE, KENDAL, LA9 5JJ
Received 23 Jul 2012OLD SMITHY, EAMONT BRIDGE, PENRITH
Received 23 Jun 2003OMEGA PROTEINS PENRITH LTD, PENRITH, CA11 0BX
Received 15 Jan 20186 TOWN END CROFT, CLIFTON, PENRITH, CA10 2EP
Received 20 Jan 2021Orchard Cottage 40 Leighton Beck Road Slack Head MILNTHORPE LA7 7AX
Received 10 Feb 2026BARN AT THE GRANARY, SCALES FOLD, RENWICK, PENRITH
Received 12 Oct 2004KNOCK CROSS FARM, KNOCK, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6DT
Received 6 Jun 2012COLDBECK HOUSE, RAVENSTONEDALE, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4LW
Received 1 Apr 2004PALMER HOUSE, BERRIER, PENRITH
Received 25 Apr 2003COLBY HOUSE FARM, COLBY, APPLEBY
Received 3 Aug 2001LAND ADJACENT TO ORCHARD HOUSE, CASTLE GARTH, KENDAL, LA9 7AT
Received 13 Jul 2004Fieldbeck Barn Garth Cartmel GRANGE-OVER-SANDS LA11 6PP
Received 15 Oct 2024VICARAGE FARM, ARMATHWAITE, CARLISLE, CA4 9PQ
Received 18 Sept 2015SILLFIELD FARM, ENDMOOR
Received 13 Jun 1997Records 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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