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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,478 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Jan 1999 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tower View, Cavendish Street, Cartmel, Grange Over Sands, LA11 6QA
Received 30 Sept 2015STOUPHILL GATE BARN, RAVENSTONEDALE, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 18 Aug 2000HUDSONS GARAGE SITE, SANDSIDE
Received 29 Sept 1999LAYTON MANOR HOUSE, BERRIER ROAD, GREYSTOKE, PENRITH
Received 8 Sept 2001LAND FORMING PART OF HIGH GREEN FARM, WARCOP, APPLEBY
Received 17 Jun 20031 Kentsford House, Kentsford Road, GRANGE over SANDS, LA11 7BB
Received 20 Mar 20191-2 Little Dockray PENRITH CA11 7HL
Received 1 Jul 2024ALSTON TRANSMITTING STATION, NEW SHIELD MOSS, ALSTON
Received 25 Oct 2000FLAT WOODS, GREAT URSWICK
Received 25 Oct 1999Sea Cottage, Canal Foot, ULVERSTON, LA12 9EN
Received 15 Jul 20229 Boroughgate Appleby-in-westmorland CA16 6XF
Received 24 Jan 2025BIRKBECK GARDENS, NATEBY ROAD, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4TH
Received 13 Aug 2015ASHTON LEA, KIRKBY THORE, PENRITH, CA10 1UE
Received 18 Oct 2022SWYNWAYS, OLD TOWN, HIGH HESKET, CARLISLE, CA4 0JE
Received 21 Jul 2014Soulby Bridge Soulby Kirkby Stephen CA17 4PL
Received 20 Feb 202610 POPLAR PLACE, PENRITH, CA11 9HN
Received 6 Oct 2017STAINTON HILL, STAINTON, PENRITH
Received 5 Dec 2002Hillcroft, 10 Cat Tree Road, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7EB
Received 14 Aug 2018BIGGINS LODGE FARM, HIGH BIGGINS, KIRKBY LONSDALE
Received 31 Jul 200034 MARKET STREET, ULVERSTON
Received 5 Jul 2001Land to the south of Underbarrow Road, KENDAL, LA9 5RS
Received 13 Jul 2020TOPPIN MEMORIAL HALL, SKELTON, PENRITH, CA11 9TE
Received 28 Apr 2021Cark Manor, Cark in Cartmel, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, Cumbria, LA11 7PG
Received 23 Dec 202224 Silver Howe Close, KENDAL, LA9 7NW
Received 18 Sept 2017Records 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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