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Barrow Waste Recovery, Transfer and Treatment Site, Scarth Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 4QR

B28/2026/9001OtherApproved

Approved on 12 October 2026

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

Proposal

Regularisation of Use and Development to allow for a mixed-usecomprising the use of Buildings as a Storage Warehouse (B8) and Workshop Garage (B2); retention of portacabin building for ancillary use as an office/security hut (E); Use of the yard for End-of-Life Vehicle Operations (Sui Generis) with associated ancillary storage and parking areas for staff and commercial vehicles associated with the above uses and the adjacent Waste Recovery, Transfer and Treatment Site

Submitted
20 April 2026
Council
Barrow
  1. Received20 Apr
  2. Validated20 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Oct

Decided in 175 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a garage at Barrow Waste Recovery, Transfer and Treatment Site, Scarth Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 4QR. Barrow has handled 63 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 17 weeks longer than Barrow's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 359 applications in total for the LA14 postcode area.

95% of all applications at Barrow were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA14 4QR
Application type
Other

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 April 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Jason Hipkiss

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)

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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    20 Apr

    Regularisation of Use and Development to allow for a mixed-usecomprising the use of Buildings as a Storage…

    This applicationApprovedOtherB28/2026/9001
  2. 2026
    20 Apr

    Variation of Condition 4 of Planning Permission Ref. 6/03/9015 toamend operational hours.

    COMMSENTVariation of conditions (s73)Filed alongsideB28/2026/9002

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