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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,675 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
COTTERILL HOUSE, NENTHEAD, ALSTON, CA9 3PY
Received 27 Jan 20151, JUBILEE TERRACE, LONG MARTON, APPLEBY
Received 26 Apr 199952 SOUTH ROAD, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4SN
Received 16 Apr 2015CASTLE FARM, ARMATHWAITE, CARLISLE
Received 28 Jul 19981 The Walled Garden, Sedgwick, KENDAL, LA8 0LW
Received 7 Feb 2018In front of Hill Royd Jack Hill Allithwaite GRANGE-OVER-SANDS LA11 7QB
Received 4 Mar 202617 CASTLE STREET, KENDAL
Received 8 Jun 2000KIRKBIE KENDAL SCHOOL, LOUND ROAD, KENDAL
Received 22 May 20004, MILL BROW, ARMATHWAITE, CARLISLE
Received 20 Apr 2002UNIT 2, GLOUCESTER YARD, GREAT DOCKRAY, PENRITH, CA11 7DE
Received 11 Oct 2004KIRKSIDE PLUS ADJACENT VACANT PLOT, PARK LANE, ALSTON
Received 13 Aug 1998Appleby Grammar School Battlebarrow Appleby-in-westmorland CA16 6XU
Received 4 Apr 2025MILLRIGGS FARM, NEW HUTTON
Received 9 Oct 2000HURSTVILLE 14, BROUGHAM HALL GARDENS, BROUGHAM, PENRITH
Received 7 Feb 20002 ULVERSTON ROAD, SWARTHMOOR, ULVERSTON, LA12 0JB
Received 24 May 20061 Soutergate ULVERSTON LA12 7ER
Received 4 Aug 202664 Kendal Green, Kendal, LA9 5PT
Received 6 Nov 2015Victoria High School, Springfield Road, ULVERSTON, LA12 0EB
Received 15 Jan 2018THE STABLES COURTYARD, APPLEBY CASTLE, BOROUGHGATE, APPLEBY, CA16 6XH
Received 2 Apr 2020Brantfield, Mount Pleasant, Greenodd, ULVERSTON, LA12 7RF
Received 2 Aug 2017THE GRANGE, ARNSIDE KNOTT, KNOTT LANE, ARNSIDE
Received 29 May 200197 Windermere Road, Kendal, LA9 5EP
Received 2 Jul 2015HERONSYKE WOOD, DALTON HALL PARK,, BURTON-IN-KENDAL
Received 16 Oct 19976 FAIR VIEW GARDENS, CLIFTON, PENRITH
Received 8 Aug 2002Records 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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