Discovery Park (former Alcan Works), Distington Bypass, Workington, CA14 4HX

CLDE/2025/0011Lawful development: Existing useApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 27 March 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for the existing use of premises as industrial (B2), Warehousing/storage/distribution (B8) and offices (E(g)(i))

Submitted: 18 November 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Allerdale
Ward: Harrington

ReceivedSubmitted18 Nov
ValidatedValidated18 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date18 Nov
DecidedDecided27 Mar

Decided in 129 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Discovery Park (former Alcan Works) , Distington Bypass, Workington, CA14 4HX. Allerdale has handled 348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 129 days, 11 weeks longer than Allerdale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Harrington. We hold 1,217 applications in total for the CA14 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: CA14 4HX
Application type: Lawful development: Existing use
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Winscales CP

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 November 2025
Target decision date: 18 November 2025
Application expires: 23 January 2026

Planning decision

Case officer: Louise White
Statutory period: 66 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14466202
Documents: 19

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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.

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

Source: Allerdale

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