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Penrith Leisure Centre Southend Road Penrith CA11 8JH

2025/0227/PASOLARPrior Approval - Roof mounted solar PV on non-domestic buildingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 April 2025

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL NOT REQUIREDDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 14, class J, for the installation of a 330 panel solar photovoltaic array.

Received
7 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Penrith South
  1. Received7 Feb
  2. Validated7 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Penrith Leisure Centre Southend Road Penrith CA11 8JH. Westmorland and Furness has handled 788 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Penrith conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,440 applications in total for the CA11 postcode area.

88% of outline 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 8JH
Application type
Prior Approval - Roof mounted solar PV on non-domestic building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Penrith

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 February 2025
Consultation expiry
19 March 2025
Consultation end
19 March 2025
Application expires
7 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mallan House Bridge End Hexham NE46 4DQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
59 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 February 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 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Penrith
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Eden SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation

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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