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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,675 withdrawn.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: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garden East of Westwinds, Allithwaite Road, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7EP
Received 30 Jan 2023Douglas House Bongate Appleby-in-westmorland CA16 6HW
Received 8 Oct 2024SCEUGH FARM, EDENHALL, PENRITH
Received 8 Nov 2002Land adj to Brackenridge High Hesket Carlisle CA4 0HU
Received 4 Oct 2024LAND AT ROAN EDGE QUARRY & ROAN EDGE, QUARRY, NEW HUTTON
Received 26 Apr 2000ARBOL HOUSE, FELL LANE, PENRITH, CA11 8BJ
Received 14 Jul 2014LAND SOUTH OF LOW HESKET VILLAGE HALL, LOW HESKET, CARLISLE
Received 15 Apr 20214 THE RIDE, DUFTON, APPLEBY, CA16 6DB
Received 13 Jul 2005OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, BROUGH, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 16 Jul 2002PATTON MILL, PATTON BRIDGE
Received 13 Mar 2001LAND EAST OF TERRYS FARM, LITTLE ORMSIDE, APPLEBY, CA16 6EJ
Received 12 Jul 2023LAND AT STATION ROAD, APPLEBY
Received 31 Oct 20063 Quay Street, ULVERSTON, LA12 9AT
Received 9 Mar 2020EMPSOM HILL, KENDAL
Received 9 May 2001MAUDLANDS, MAUDE STREET, KENDAL
Received 1 Jun 1999ORCHARD HOUSE, BRIGSTEER
Received 8 May 200176 GREENSIDE, KENDAL, LA9 5DT
Received 21 Jun 2012ACCESS LANE TO THE VICARAGE LOW WIEND, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6QP
Received 26 Jun 2018Fellside, Sunbrick, Ulverston, LA12 9RE
Received 27 Aug 2014INGLEBECK, EDENHALL, PENRITH, CA11 8SR
Received 21 Dec 2020Unit 20 Trading Estate, Beezon Road, KENDAL, LA9 6BW
Received 29 Sept 20173 BIRKRIGG CLOSE, SWARTHMOOR, ULVERSTON, LA120SA
Received 9 Mar 2004WM MORRISONS SUPERMARKET PLC, BRUNSWICK ROAD, PENRITH, CUMBRIA, CA11 7JU
Received 19 Jan 2011BIRK VIEW, PENNINGTON, ULVERSTON
Received 3 Oct 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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