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Pear Tree Farm, Bowness On Solway, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 5AF

2/2017/0013Change of useRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 9 March 2017

Council decision: Full Plans Refused

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of buildings into a tea room (A3) and B&B units (C1). Installation of handrail and new door.

Submitted
13 January 2017
Council
Allerdale
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.7 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Pear Tree Farm, Bowness On Solway, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 5AF. Allerdale has handled 348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Allerdale's typical decision time. The site is in the Bowness-on-Solway conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 2,924 applications in total for the CA7 postcode area.

97% of amendment applications at Allerdale were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CA7 5AF
Application type
Change of use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2017
Consultation expiry
7 February 2017
Consultation start
18 January 2017
Consultation end
7 February 2017
Committee meeting
14 February 2017
Application expires
10 March 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Pear Tree Farm Bowness on Solway Wigton Cumbria CA7 5AF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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