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Land to rear of 62-66 Main Street, Cockermouth CA13 9NB

CLM/2024/0001Prior Approval Pt.3 cls. M - retail or betting office or pay day loan shop to dwellinghousesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 August 2025

Delegated (officer decision)5 conditions

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

Proposal

Prior Approval under Part 3 Class MA - Change of Use from Class E (commercial, business and service) to Class C3 (dwellinghouses)

Submitted
16 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Allerdale
Ward
Cockermouth North
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Aug
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 553 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Land to rear of 62-66 Main Street, Cockermouth CA13 9NB. Allerdale has handled 748 applications of this type. This one was decided in 553 days, 72 weeks longer than Allerdale's typical decision time. The site is in the Cockermouth conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Cockermouth North. We hold 1,183 applications in total for the CA13 postcode area.

96% of outline 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 9NB
Application type
Prior Approval Pt.3 cls. M - retail or betting office or pay day loan shop to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Cockermouth CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2024
Target decision date
19 August 2025
Application expires
29 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
550 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Cockermouth
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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.

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.

Source: Allerdale

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