Access Track from the A689 at Fairhill serving Flinty Fell Quarry, Nenthead (CA9 3PN)

3/24/9003ConditionsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 15 August 2025

Council decision: Granted Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Section 73 Application to vary Conditions 2 and 11 and remove Conditions 1, 6 and 8 of Planning Permission Ref. 3/99/9012 in order to extend the time period for the use of the access road by quarry traffic until 31 December 2039 and to update the approved scheme.

Received: 24 April 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cumbria

ReceivedReceived24 Apr
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation29 May
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 Aug

Decided in 478 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Access Track from the A689 at Fairhill serving Flinty Fell Quarry, Nenthead (CA9 3PN). Cumbria has handled 45 applications of this type. This one was decided in 478 days, 56 weeks longer than Cumbria's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 67 applications in total for the CA9 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: CA9 3PN
Application type: Conditions
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Alston Moor CP
District: Eden District Council

Planning application dates

Validated: 24 April 2024
Consultation expiry: 29 May 2024
Consultation end: 29 May 2024

Planning decision

Case officer: Mr Edward Page (07881 007 831)

Additional information

Documents: 14

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, 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, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, 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.

Source: Cumbria

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