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Chicken Shed, Green Bank, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5UY

7/2024/2026CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 3 May 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Building works needed to convert chicken shed into a single dwelling house - construction and development of upper rooms to form a lounge, bedrooms, fitted bathroom and fitted kitchen with plumbing, electrics and central heating, window and door openings and external cladding. Ground floor rooms - living rooms being used to store domestic furniture.

Received
2 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Keswick Ward
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Mar
  5. Decided3 May

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Chicken Shed, Green Bank, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5UY. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Keswick Ward. We hold 993 applications in total for the CA12 postcode area.

74% of amendment applications at Lake District were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CA12 5UY
Application type
CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Borrowdale
District
Allerdale

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2024
Target decision date
28 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

UPRN
MAN000000000002382
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Derwent & Bassenthwaite Lake SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • National park: Lake District
  • SSSI: Lodore - Troutdale Woods SSSINext to the site · +1 more
  • Special Area of Conservation: Borrowdale Woodland ComplexNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, National Landscapes, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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

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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.

© 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.

Source: Lake District

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