Upper Eden Visitor Centre Market Street Kirkby Stephen CA17 4QN
Approved on 14 March 2025
Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of roofing material from concrete interlocking tiles to natural slate, and alteration of roof to form a small canopy over external stairs.
- Received
- 5 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Ward
- Kirkby Stephen and Tebay
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated6 Feb
- Consult.Consultation12 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided14 Mar
Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Upper Eden Visitor Centre Market Street Kirkby Stephen CA17 4QN. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Kirkby Stephen conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Kirkby Stephen and Tebay. We hold 414 applications in total for the CA17 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
- CA17 4QN
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Kirkby Stephen
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 12 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 11 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 12 March 2025
- Application expires
- 3 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 13b Angel Lane Penrith CA11 7BP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 8 March 2025
- Site notice start
- 19 February 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Kirkby Stephen
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Eden SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage 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, 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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