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Old Post Office Calthwaite PENRITH CA11 9QT

2024/1945/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 September 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of a summer house.

Received
11 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Hesket and Lazonby
  1. Received11 Oct
  2. Validated11 Oct
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Sep

Decided in 325 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Old Post Office Calthwaite PENRITH CA11 9QT. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 325 days, 38 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Hesket and Lazonby. We hold 1,442 applications in total for the CA11 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
CA11 9QT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hesket

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 October 2024
Consultation expiry
13 August 2025
Consultation start
10 July 2025
Consultation end
13 August 2025
Application expires
8 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Old Post Office Calthwaite CA11 9QT

Planning decision

Statutory period
332 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 July 2025

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.

  • 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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