Newlyn, Palmerston House & Stafford House Kents Bank Road GRANGE-OVER-SANDS LA11 7EY
Approved on 12 December 2025
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of basement of Newlyn, Palmerston House & Stafford House from (Use Class B2 - General industrial) to self-storage business (Use Class B8 - Storage and distribution) Removal of 2 windows, from the rear of the basement (rotten frame and glass damaged) and the Albert Road side (metal frame broken, insecure and wired glass shattered). Cavities to be bricked up, and finished externally to match existing surrounding external walls of rough render and white masonry paint along with replacement of existing wooden door from basement onto Albert Road with new steel door to improve security.
- Received
- 25 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Ward
- Grange and Cartmel
- ReceivedReceived25 Jun
- ValidatedValidated29 Jul
- Consult.Consultation12 Sep
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided12 Dec
Decided in 136 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Newlyn, Palmerston House & Stafford House Kents Bank Road GRANGE-OVER-SANDS LA11 7EY. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 170 days, 16 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Grange over Sands conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Grange and Cartmel. We hold 1,396 applications in total for the LA11 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
- LA11 7EY
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Grange-over-Sands
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 July 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 12 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 12 September 2025
- Application expires
- 16 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 10 Oakenshaw View Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 140 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 September 2025
- Site notice start
- 14 August 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Grange over Sands
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, 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.
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Source: Westmorland and Furness
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