Richmond House, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7QX

4/16/9005AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 July 2016

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of Use from Class B1 to Class D1 to facilitate conversion from Cumbria County Council offices to the West Cumbria Learning Hub

Received: 1 June 2016
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cumbria

ReceivedReceived1 Jun
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation6 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided29 Jul

Decided in 58 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Richmond House, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7QX. Cumbria has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 4 weeks quicker than Cumbria's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitehaven Town Centre conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 38 applications in total for the CA28 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: CA28 7QX
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Small
District: Copeland Borough Council

Planning application dates

Validated: 1 June 2016
Consultation expiry: 6 July 2016
Consultation end: 6 July 2016

Additional information

Documents: 13

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 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Conservation area: Whitehaven Town Centre

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 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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Source: Cumbria

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