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Headmasters House Front Street Alston CA9 3SQ

2025/0288/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 2 October 2025

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of vacant land to create additional garden and installation of fencing, railings, gates and hot tub. Part retrospective.

Received
14 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Alston and Fellside
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.20 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Oct

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Headmasters House Front Street Alston CA9 3SQ. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 230 days, 25 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Alston conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Alston and Fellside. We hold 67 applications in total for the CA9 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
CA9 3SQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Alston Moor

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2025
Consultation expiry
20 September 2025
Consultation start
14 August 2025
Consultation end
20 September 2025
Application expires
7 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Horton Drive Upper Lighthorne Warwickshire CA9 3SQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
20 September 2025
Site notice start
18 August 2025

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Alston
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Alston
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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