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Hobkin Ground Farm, Broughton Mills, Broughton In Furness, Cumbria, LA20 6AU

7/2025/5406Full Planning applicationRefused
Full

Refused on 18 February 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Use of land for siting of Yurt, associated storage shed and amenity unit, for flexible use as short term holiday letting accommodation and environmental learning studies

Received
22 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
High Furness Ward
  1. Received22 Jul
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Oct
  5. Decided18 Feb

Decided in 170 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Hobkin Ground Farm, Broughton Mills, Broughton In Furness, Cumbria, LA20 6AU. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 211 days, 22 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across High Furness Ward. We hold 117 applications in total for the LA20 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
LA20 6AU
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Duddon
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2025
Target decision date
26 October 2025
Application expires
18 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
198 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14140103
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, nutrient neutrality catchments, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, 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

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.

Source: Lake District

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