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Moorland Stores And Post Office School Road KIRKBY-IN-FURNESS LA17 7TF

2024/0129/PACOUPrior Approval - Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 27 March 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval Required & ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA for a proposed change of use from redundant post office (Use Class E) into a ground floor flat (Use Class C3)

Received
24 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
High Furness
  1. Received24 Jan
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Moorland Stores And Post Office School Road KIRKBY-IN-FURNESS LA17 7TF. Westmorland and Furness has handled 382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across High Furness. We hold 215 applications in total for the LA17 postcode area.

85% of amendment applications at Westmorland and Furness were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA17 7TF
Application type
Prior Approval - Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kirkby Ireleth

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2024
Consultation expiry
5 March 2024
Consultation end
5 March 2024
Application expires
1 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
10 Violet Croft Tipton DY4 0DB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 February 2024

Additional information

Documents
32

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: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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: Westmorland and Furness

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