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Land at Great Orton Airfield, Great Orton, Carlisle, CA5 6NL

VAR/2024/0039Removal/variation of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 February 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of Condition 5 on planning approval 2/98/0134 for the removal of ten x 50m high, two bladed wind turbines together with related infrastructure and their replacement with six x 43m high three bladed wind turbines together with underground cable, access roads and one 43m high anemometer mast for wind measurement purposes, to change the conditioned timeframe of the operational period from 25 years to 30 years.

Submitted
22 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Allerdale
Ward
Thursby
  1. Received22 Nov
  2. Validated22 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Jan
  5. Decided18 Feb

Decided in 88 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Land at Great Orton Airfield, Great Orton, Carlisle, CA5 6NL. Allerdale has handled 331 applications of this type. This one was decided in 88 days, 6 weeks longer than Allerdale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,024 applications in total for the CA5 postcode area.

99% of conditions 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
CA5 6NL
Application type
Removal/variation of conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Aikton CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 November 2024
Target decision date
9 January 2025
Application expires
21 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13309140
Documents
15

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 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.

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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