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Nelson Thomlinson Secondary School, High Street, Wigton, CA7 9PX

2/24/9001HeritageApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 25 March 2024

Council decision: Granted Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of solar panels to the roof of the James Building (aka J Block). Affects the setting of Grade II Listed Building - Library block

Received
2 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Cumbria
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.11 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 52 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a solar installation at Nelson Thomlinson Secondary School, High Street, Wigton, CA7 9PX. Cumbria has handled 16 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 5 weeks quicker than Cumbria's typical decision time. The site is in the Wigton conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,924 applications in total for the CA7 postcode area.

100% of all applications at Cumbria were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 12 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CA7 9PX
Application type
Heritage
Scale / size
Small
District
Allerdale Borough Council

Planning application dates

Validated
2 February 2024
Consultation expiry
11 March 2024
Consultation end
11 March 2024

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Wigton
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Wigton, Allerdale
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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: Cumbria

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