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Bowness House Farm, Bowness On Solway, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 5AF

FUL/2019/0122Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 25 July 2019

Council decision: Full Plans ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retention of existing office structure for use as an A1 shop

Submitted
30 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Allerdale
  1. Received30 May
  2. Validated30 May
  3. Consult.5 Jul
  4. Target30 May
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Bowness House Farm, Bowness On Solway, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 5AF. Allerdale has handled 3,398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 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 17 other applications at this address. We hold 2,924 applications in total for the CA7 postcode area.

99% of full 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
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 May 2019
Consultation expiry
5 July 2019
Consultation start
31 May 2019
Consultation end
5 July 2019
Target decision date
30 May 2019
Committee meeting
9 July 2019
Application expires
25 July 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Witney Way Hi-Tech Village Boldon Business Park Boldon NE35 9PE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2020
    30 Jun

    Variation of Condition 2 on approved planning application FUL/2019/0122

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)VAR/2020/0011
  2. 2019
    30 May

    Retention of existing office structure for use as an A1 shop

    This applicationApprovedFullFUL/2019/0122

Planning history at this site

16 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2020
    22 Jan

    Part change of use to permit the hire of 4 motorhomes for a temporary period of 3 years

    ApprovedChange of useFUL/2020/0021
  2. 2019
    5 Apr

    Non material amendment for internal and external changes to the former milking barn and Gin Case building…

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAM/2016/0600
  3. 2018
    20 Jul

    Application for approval of details reserved by condition 9 of approval 2/2017/0160

    Compliance with Conditions ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON3/2017/0160
  4. 2018
    3 Jul

    Non compliance with condition 2 & 8 of 2/2017/0160

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2/2018/0284
  5. 2018
    15 May

    Application for approval of details reserved by condition 6 on planning approval 2/2016/0608

    Compliance with Conditions ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON3/2016/0608
  6. 2018
    14 Feb

    Compliance with conditions 4 roofing materials samples, 9 construction plan, 14 archaeological, 16 demolition…

    Compliance with Conditions ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON2/2016/0600

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