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Barn at the Helm Oxenholme KENDAL LA9 7PR

2025/0825/PACOUPrior Approval - Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 20 June 2025

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL REQUIRED & APPROVEDDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 3, class Q, for change of use of agricultural building to a dwellinghouse (Resubmission of 2024/1954/PACOU)

Received
28 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Kendal South
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.23 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Jun

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Barn at the Helm Oxenholme KENDAL LA9 7PR. Westmorland and Furness has handled 382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Kendal South. We hold 2,150 applications in total for the LA9 postcode area.

85% of amendment 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
LA9 7PR
Application type
Prior Approval - Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kendal

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2025
Consultation expiry
23 May 2025
Consultation start
29 April 2025
Consultation end
23 May 2025
Application expires
22 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
130 Highgate Kendal LA9 4HE

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 May 2025

Additional information

Documents
23

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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