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Newspaper House Abbey Road Barrow-In-Furness Cumbria LA14 5QS

B28/2026/0266Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 September 2026

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

Proposal

Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 5 (window details), 6 (replacement door), 7 ( render and sample panels of the proposed over-cladding), 8 (landscape scheme) of planning permission B12/2021/0106 (Conversion of redundant newspaper offices building to 11 no. 1 & 2 bedroom residential apartments and 3 no. business/workshop units) (amended description)

Submitted
15 June 2026
Council
Barrow
  1. Received15 Jun
  2. Validated15 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Sep

Decided in 86 days

About this application

This is a planning application for window replacement at Newspaper House Abbey Road Barrow-In-Furness Cumbria LA14 5QS. Barrow has handled 1,051 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Barrow's typical decision time. The site is in the Central Barrow-in-Furness conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 359 applications in total for the LA14 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LA14 5QS

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 June 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Maureen Smith

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Heritage at Risk Register: Central Barrow
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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: Barrow

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