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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,667 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 BIRCHFIELD, ENDMOOR
Received 14 Mar 1997Land North of B6254 Old Hutton KENDAL LA8
Received 20 Dec 2024STONE FAULDS, SOUTHWAITE, CARLISLE, CA4 0QA
Received 19 Jan 2004LAND AT WOOL OAKS MILL, CALTHWAITE, PENRITH
Received 2 Oct 2015GOADSBARROW FARM, BAYCLIFF
Received 28 Jan 199711/11A MARKET STREET, ULVERSTON
Received 15 Apr 2002Sequena, 44 Kentsford Road, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7AP
Received 9 Jun 2023LAND ADJOINING CRAG VIEW, WINTER LANE, PLANTATION BRIDGE
Received 18 Jul 1997North Lonsdale Road Highways Depot North Lonsdale Road ULVERSTON LA12 9DZ
Received 19 May 2026HARTLEY HOUSE, MORLAND, PENRITH, CA10 3AX
Received 5 Sept 20128 Stonecross Road, KENDAL, LA9 5HR
Received 29 Jun 2018WHITE OX WAY, ON GRASS VERGE, PENRITH, CA11 8QP
Received 29 Oct 2004ENTRANCE TO BLEACH MILL, EAMONT BRIDGE, PENRITH
Received 22 May 1998UNIT 4, THE GROTTO, YANWATH, PENRITH
Received 2 Jan 2001BROWNLEY HILL, NENTHEAD, ALSTON
Received 12 Feb 1999Streamwood, The Crescent, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 6AW
Received 12 Mar 2018WILD ROSE PARK, ORMSIDE, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND
Received 24 Apr 2003Grass verge opposite Trinkeld Farm Swarthmoor ULVERSTON LA12 0SE
Received 25 Sept 2024FIELD IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF CLIBURN TREATMENT WORKS, STATION ROAD, CLIBURN, CA10 3AE
Received 31 Aug 201619 Burneside Road KENDAL LA9 4RL
Received 16 Aug 2024HOLLY TREE COTTAGE, HINCASTER, MILNTHORPE, LA7 7ND
Received 8 Aug 2006LOW BIGGERSBANK, SELSIDE
Received 13 Jun 1997HELM FARM, ORMSIDE, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6QA
Received 6 Aug 2004HILLCREST HOTEL, TOWNFOOT, ALSTON
Received 8 Jan 1998Records 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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