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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,777 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4A BATTLEBARROW, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6XS
Received 15 Aug 2014Thompson Fold Lupton CARNFORTH LA6 2PP
Received 1 Dec 2023PART FIELD 7765 LAND ADJOINNING THREE GABLES, SOUTHWAITE ROAD, LOW HESKET, CARLISLE, CA4 0ES
Received 19 Jan 2004FIELD SE OF ROSE BANK FARM, LAZONBY, PENRITH, CA10 1AT
Received 4 May 2018St Marys R C School, Springfield Road, ULVERSTON, LA12 0EA
Received 17 Jul 201931 Strawberry Fields, KENDAL, LA9 7TA
Received 21 Feb 2022SITE AT BEWALDETH, PLUMPTON, PENRITH, CA11 9PA
Received 30 May 2018FIRST NORTH WESTERN, GRANGE OVER SANDS STATION, STATION SQUARE, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 6EH
Received 14 Mar 200518 WILSON STREET, KENDAL, LA9 7DR
Received 22 Nov 20124A BATTLEBARROW, APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6XS
Received 7 Jul 20201 Beechnut Road, KENDAL, LA9 7FF
Received 22 Jun 2020LAND AT EDENHALL, EDENHALL, PENRITH
Received 10 Dec 1999Hayclose End, Oxenholme, Kendal, LA9 7RF
Received 13 Jun 2014CO-OPERATIVE SUPERMARKET, REDMAYNE ROAD, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 22 Oct 19992 EAST VIEW, GREAT MUSGRAVE, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4DW
Received 16 May 200590 Kentsford Road, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7BB
Received 9 Mar 2023FAIR BANK FARM, PLUMPTON, PENRITH
Received 9 Jul 1999BECKSTONES, NEXT NESS, ULVERSTON, LA12 7QW
Received 19 May 2003GLENNIFER HOUSE, STATION ROAD, SHAP, PENRITH
Received 21 Feb 2003LAND KNOWN AS CARLETON HEIGHTS, PENRITH
Received 16 Nov 20231 Lingmoor Rise KENDAL LA9 7NP
Received 14 Sept 2026Icod, Little Heads, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7DZ
Received 3 Aug 202027 MITCHELGATE, KIRKBY LONSDALE, LA6 2BE
Received 26 May 2006MYERS LANE, PENRITH, CA11 9DP
Received 29 Jan 2004Records 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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