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Barrow Waste Recovery, Transfer, and Treatment Site Scarth Road, Sowerby Woods Business Park Barrow in Furness, LA14 4QR

6/26/9002ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 September 2026

Council decision: Granted Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)11 conditions

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

Proposal

Variation of Condition 4 of Planning Permission Ref. 6/03/9015 to amend operational hours.

Received
10 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Cumbria
  1. Received10 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.20 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Sep

Decided in 168 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Barrow Waste Recovery, Transfer, and Treatment Site Scarth Road, Sowerby Woods Business Park Barrow in Furness, LA14 4QR. Cumbria has handled 45 applications of this type. This one was decided in 168 days, 12 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 359 applications in total for the LA14 postcode area.

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

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
LA14 4QR
Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small
District
Barrow Borough Council

Planning application dates

Validated
10 April 2026
Consultation expiry
20 May 2026
Consultation end
20 May 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Edward Page (07881 007 831)

Additional information

Documents
17

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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    10 Apr

    Variation of Condition 4 of Planning Permission Ref. 6/03/9015 to amend operational hours.

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)6/26/9002
  2. 2026
    9 Apr

    Regularisation of Use and Development to allow for a mixed-use comprising the use of Buildings as a Storage…

    ApprovedOtherFiled alongside6/26/9001

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