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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0 approved · 0 refused · 2,933 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Aug 1974 to 4 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HIGH FLAN FARM, MANSRIGGS, ULVERSTON, LA12 7PU
Received 20 Jul 2004ROOKERY FARM, CROSBY GARRETT, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 17 Jul 200025 COLLIN ROAD, KENDAL
Received 3 Feb 200315 CANNY CROFT, PENRITH, CA11 9HA
Received 13 Mar 201312 COBBLESTONE CORNER, MORLAND, PENRITH, CA10 3BG
Received 19 Jul 2021Hesket House High Hesket CARLISLE CA4 0HU
Received 13 Mar 2026REIGNY HOUSE COTTAGE, NEWTON REIGNY, PENRITH, CA11 0AY
Received 22 Aug 2017O.S 1841, EAST OF THE SQUARE, BURTON-IN-KENDAL
Received 24 Sept 199821, MILNER MOUNT, PENRITH
Received 7 Mar 2001HOLME SEWAGE WORKS, HOLME
Received 16 Sept 200232 KIRKLAND, KENDAL
Received 14 Mar 1996High Park Barn, Oxenholme, KENDAL, LA9 7RE
Received 14 Dec 2017Gascow Farm, Priory Road, ULVERSTON, LA12 9QE
Received 4 Sept 2019ARRAD FOOT FARM, ARRAD FOOT, NR ULVERSTON
Received 25 Jun 1990BARN ADJOINING DALEFOOT, MALLERSTANG, KIRKBY STEPHEN
Received 30 Sept 2002LOW MOOR FARM, NEWBY, PENRITH, CA10 3HB
Received 14 Oct 2016ENCLOSED PLOT ADJACENT TO NORTH-EAST, CORNER OF 21 SYCAMORE CLOSE, ENDMOOR
Received 18 Mar 1999GREYSTONE HOUSE, BOLTON, APPLEBY
Received 18 May 2001Pennine View Church Brough Kirkby Stephen CA17 4EW
Received 7 May 2025Dunrovin Catterlen Penrith CA11 0BQ
Received 3 Oct 2024LUNSONS YARD, SCOTLAND ROAD, PENRITH
Received 20 Sept 2000WELL KNOWE BARN, CARTMEL, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7SS
Received 5 Aug 2005CROSSFIELD HOUSE, REDHILLS ROAD, ARNSIDE
Received 5 Aug 1998LAND TO THE NORTH OF HACKTHORPE HALL, HACKTHORPE, PENRITH, CA10 2HW
Received 21 Jun 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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