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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,773 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Aug 1974 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
UNIT 3 PRINCES WAY BUSINESS UNITS, HEVERSHAM
Received 24 Dec 2001Fulbrook Cottage, Beehive Lane, Old Hutton, KENDAL, LA8 0LT
Received 10 Feb 201719 THE PARKLANDS, PENRITH, CA11 8TF
Received 22 Mar 2013LAND AT STATION VIEW, STATION VIEW, PENRITH
Received 21 Mar 2002Land south of Underbarrow Road Kendal LA9
Received 11 Nov 2025Land at Raiselands Farm Scotland Road PENRITH CA11 9JW
Received 21 Nov 20245 THE BARN, ARMATHWAITE, CARLISLE, CA4 9PF
Received 11 Feb 2019Valentine Cottage Lupton CARNFORTH LA6 2PX
Received 9 Dec 2025BEECH WOOD, BONGATE, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6UN
Received 9 Oct 2023SITE ADJACENT TO HOME GARTH, SLEAGILL, PENRITH
Received 11 Aug 2005PLOT 5, MILESTONE HOUSE, MAIN STREET,, KIRKBY LONSDALE
Received 14 Feb 2000BENTS COTTAGES, CALTHWAITE, PENRITH, CA11 9PX
Received 8 Nov 2006GARDEN OF THE GHYLL, CHARNEY WELL ROAD,, GRANGE-0VER-SANDS
Received 31 Jul 2001LAND ADJACENT TO SANDFORD ARMS, SANDFORD, APPLEBY
Received 21 Sept 2001DORNMEAD, KILMIDYKE DRIVE, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
Received 31 Jul 1997Cressbrook, Kendal Road, Kirkby Lonsdale, CARNFORTH, LA6 2FR
Received 16 Oct 2019Deepdale, The Crescent, Grange over Sands, Cumbria, LA11 6AW
Received 10 Jun 2015WOOD VIEW, BEETHAM
Received 5 Aug 1996E H Booth and Co Ltd, Dodgson Croft, Kirkby Lonsdale, CARNFORTH, LA6 2HG
Received 22 Jan 2019Heathwaite,Storth Road, Storth, Milnthorpe, LA7 7JA
Received 18 Apr 2013ASHMEADOW, BARBON
Received 26 Jan 2000Mast at High House Farm Colby APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND CA16 6BD
Received 4 Jul 202589 Allithwaite Road, Flookburgh, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7JR
Received 8 Feb 2021SOUTH VIEW, PRIZET
Received 21 Jun 2000Records 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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