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Todbusk Lodge Sandside Lodge School Springfield Road ULVERSTON LA12 0DZ

2024/0668/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 21 August 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from former lodge (currently educational storage) to café (Use Class E) to be run by Sandside Lodge School for educational development of students.

Received
17 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Ulverston
  1. Received17 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.23 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 126 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Todbusk Lodge Sandside Lodge School Springfield Road ULVERSTON LA12 0DZ. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 10 weeks 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 109 applications across Ulverston. We hold 2,023 applications in total for the LA12 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
LA12 0DZ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ulverston

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2024
Consultation expiry
23 May 2024
Consultation start
30 April 2024
Consultation end
23 May 2024
Application expires
12 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
11 Meadowside Swarthmoor Ulverston Cumbria LA12 0XD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 May 2024

Additional information

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.

  • 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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