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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,574 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Feb 1998 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Netherfield Sports and Social Club, Parkside Road, KENDAL, LA9 7BL
Received 20 Jan 2015TOWN HEAD FARM, LANGWATHBY, PENRITH
Received 2 Jul 1999THE HERMITAGE, SHAP, PENRITH, CA10 3LX
Received 11 Oct 20043 King Street, ULVERSTON, LA12 7DY
Received 27 May 2020Martindale Flats (SLH), Low Fellside, KENDAL, LA9 4NZ
Received 20 Sept 202311, BOROUGHGATE, APPLEBY
Received 29 Apr 1998Belle Vue Princes Street ULVERSTON LA12 7NB
Received 28 Nov 2023Site Adjacent to Otters Holt Culgaith Penrith CA10 1SG
Received 10 Apr 2024LAND ADJACENT HOLME EDEN, LANGWATHBY, PENRITH, CA10 1LW
Received 22 Dec 2017PHOENIX HALL, ELLONBY ROAD, SKELTON, PENRITH, CA11 9SQ
Received 29 Jul 20158 LYNDHURST ROAD, ULVERSTON
Received 29 Mar 19991ST AND 2ND FLOOR LEVEL ABOVE, NEWCASTLE BUILDING SOCIETY, 12 MARKET SQUARE, PENRITH, CA11 7BX
Received 2 Nov 2011OS FIELD NO 5237, SOUTH OF HOLME BECK,, HOLME
Received 10 Jan 2002APPLEBY CASTLE, BOROUGHGATE, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6XH
Received 13 Aug 2015Paddock View, New Hutton, KENDAL, LA8 0AT
Received 9 May 2019TOWNHEAD FARM, DRYBECK, APPLEBY
Received 23 Sept 1998INTACK FARM, SOUTHWAITE, CARLISLE, CA4 0LH
Received 14 Sept 2020Cutters Cottage Newland ULVERSTON LA12 7QQ
Received 13 Feb 20264 KENT CLOSE, BOWSTON, KENDAL, LA8 9HJ
Received 27 Mar 2006Burneside Mill, Burneside, KENDAL, LA9 6PZ
Received 1 Apr 2021LINDEN FARMHOUSE, LANGWATHBY, PENRITH
Received 18 Jul 2000MEADOW SWEET, UNION LANE, ULVERSTON
Received 24 Apr 200368 Lingmoor Rise KENDAL LA9 7NU
Received 22 May 2025SCAR CROFT, KINGS MEABURN, PENRITH
Received 14 Jan 1999Records 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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