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55 Shap Road KENDAL LA9 6DL

2024/0268/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 23 April 2024

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of a dwelling house (Use Class C3) as a home for up to 2 young people (no older than 18 years of age). They will have care provided 24 hours a day by up to 2 care staff and a manager during the day with 2 staff overnight (Use Class C2 - Residential institution)

Received
16 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Kendal Nether
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.15 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 55 Shap Road KENDAL LA9 6DL. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 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 48 applications across Kendal Nether. We hold 2,150 applications in total for the LA9 postcode area.

93% of full 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
LA9 6DL
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Kendal

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2024
Consultation expiry
15 March 2024
Consultation start
20 February 2024
Consultation end
15 March 2024
Application expires
29 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
107 Lawsons Road Thornton-Cleveleys Lancashire FY5 4PP

Planning decision

Statutory period
73 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 February 2024

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: 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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