Land at and adjacent to the former Greenscoe Quarry, Greenscoe, Askam-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA16 7HE

6/24/9001AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 October 2024

Council decision: Granted Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retrospective application under Section 73a for land engineering works and the associated use of part of the raised land as an external storage area; and internal access road improvements.

Received: 11 June 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cumbria

ReceivedReceived11 Jun
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation10 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided23 Oct

Decided in 134 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land at and adjacent to the former Greenscoe Quarry, Greenscoe, Askam-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA16 7HE. Cumbria has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 7 weeks longer than Cumbria's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 153 applications in total for the LA16 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: LA16 7HE
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Askam and Ireleth CP
District: Barrow Borough Council

Planning application dates

Validated: 11 June 2024
Consultation expiry: 10 July 2024
Consultation end: 10 July 2024

Planning decision

Case officer: Mr Edward Page (07881 007 831)

Additional information

Documents: 20

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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, 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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© 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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