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Lakeland Wildlife Oasis Hale MILNTHORPE LA7 7FE

2024/1862/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 23 January 2025

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of condition 1 (Approved plans), condition 2 (materials), condition 4 (surfacing material), condition 7 (car park surface levels) & condition 8 (hard and soft landscaping) attached to planning permission 2024/1320/FPA (Internal alterations and extensions to the existing reception building, change of use of Agricultural land to create car parking area and a nature reserve, change of use of the existing car park to create additional animal enclosures and exhibits, children's play area and a toilet building)

Received
4 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Kent Estuary
  1. Received4 Oct
  2. Validated4 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 111 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Lakeland Wildlife Oasis Hale MILNTHORPE LA7 7FE. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 8 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 77 applications across Kent Estuary. We hold 625 applications in total for the LA7 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
LA7 7FE
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Beetham

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 October 2024
Consultation expiry
6 November 2024
Consultation start
7 October 2024
Consultation end
6 November 2024
Application expires
24 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
213 Preston Road Whittle-le-Woods PR6 7PS

Planning decision

Statutory period
112 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 October 2024

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Arnside & Silverdale
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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