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Low Wood Cottage, Wasdale, Seascale, CA20 1ET

7/2025/4038Full Planning applicationRefused
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Refused on 7 August 2025

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retention of existing fish pond, summerhouse and car port, and change of use of land to garden area

Received
5 May 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Council
Lake District
Ward
Gosforth Ward
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated5 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Jun
  5. Decided7 Aug

Decided in 94 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Low Wood Cottage, Wasdale, Seascale, CA20 1ET. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Gosforth Ward. We hold 180 applications in total for the CA20 postcode area.

88% of full 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
CA20 1ET
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wasdale
District
Copeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 May 2025
Target decision date
29 June 2025
Application expires
11 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 May 2025

Appeal history

3373784
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 18 March 2026Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13934427
UPRN
10000907458
Documents
36

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO-482Part of the site
  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • National park: Lake District
  • Ancient woodland: Shop and Gill WoodsPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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.

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Source: Lake District

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