Thomlinson Junior School, the Goose Market, High Street, Wigton, CA7 9PG

2/24/9002HeritageApproved

Listed building consent

Approved on 11 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 Photovoltaic Panels. Affects the setting of Grade II Listed Building.

Received: 2 February 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cumbria

ReceivedReceived2 Feb
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation7 Mar
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided11 Mar

Decided in 38 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a solar installation at Thomlinson Junior School, the Goose Market, High Street, Wigton, CA7 9PG. Cumbria has handled 16 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 7 weeks quicker than Cumbria's typical decision time. The site is in the Wigton conservation area, with 7 listed buildings 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 9PG
Application type: Heritage
Scale / size: Small
District: Allerdale Borough Council

Planning application dates

Validated: 2 February 2024
Consultation expiry: 7 March 2024
Consultation end: 7 March 2024

Additional information

Documents: 10

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.

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© 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.

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Source: Cumbria

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