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33 Portland Walk Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LA14 1DB

BPAB/2023/0421AmendmentApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 11 August 2023

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL NOT REQUIRED

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

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to convert first floor commercial/shop storage area into single dwelling/apartment (1 bed, 2 persons) - Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA.

Submitted
21 June 2023
Council
Barrow
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 33 Portland Walk Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LA14 1DB. Barrow has handled 130 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Barrow's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 1DB
Application type
Amendment

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2023

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.

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