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Deer Orchard House, Castlegate, Cockermouth, CA13 9HA

CAT/2024/0015Works to Trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 23 July 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 - conifer single stem forking into multiples, reduce height by approx 5 metres 1/3 to reduce wind sail. T2 - conifer single stem, reduce height by 1/3 approx 4-5 metres to reduce wind sail. T3 - confer single stem forking into 2. Reduce height by 1/3 approx 4-5 meters and remove lower limb shown in photos. To reduce wind sail. T4 - ash remove from next to wall as showing signs of ash die back and is dropping the higher canopy - remove T5- laburnum multi-stemmed roots have helped to cause old wall to fall in rear garden - remove T6- conifer small remove to allow wall to get fixed and remove issues of tree causing future damage of wall

Submitted
26 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Allerdale
Ward
Cockermouth South
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Deer Orchard House, Castlegate, Cockermouth, CA13 9HA. Allerdale has handled 244 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 3 weeks quicker than Allerdale's typical decision time. The site is in the Cockermouth conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Cockermouth South. We hold 1,181 applications in total for the CA13 postcode area.

98% of trees 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
CA13 9HA
Application type
Works to Trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cockermouth CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2024
Target decision date
17 July 2024
Application expires
7 August 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12990996
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.

  • Conservation area: Cockermouth
  • Listed building: Grade II*: Castlegate HouseOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, 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.

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Source: Allerdale

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