Land at Melkinthorpe Wood Melkinthorpe Penrith
Approved on 13 June 2025
Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL NOT REQUIREDDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 6, class E, for the installation of and upgrading of forestry tracks.
- Received
- 28 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Ward
- Eden and Lyvennet Vale
- ReceivedReceived28 May
- ValidatedValidated28 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Jun
Decided in 16 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land at Melkinthorpe Wood Melkinthorpe Penrith. Westmorland and Furness has handled 788 applications of this type. This one was decided in 16 days, 6 weeks 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 71 applications across Eden and Lyvennet Vale.
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
- Application type
- Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Strickland, Cliburn
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 May 2025
- Application expires
- 24 June 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Lowther Farming Partnership The Estate Office Lowther Castle Penrith CA10 2HH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 27 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Source: Westmorland and Furness
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