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Former Newton Rigg Campus Newton Rigg Penrith CA11 0AH

2025/1802/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 19 November 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from college refectory to cafe/restaurant/retail (use class E) including internal alterations and external alterations to existing stepped access, external access lift, entrance foyer, glazing and doors.

Received
17 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Hesket and Lazonby
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.22 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Nov

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Former Newton Rigg Campus Newton Rigg Penrith CA11 0AH. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Hesket and Lazonby. We hold 1,442 applications in total for the CA11 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
CA11 0AH
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Catterlen

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2025
Consultation expiry
22 October 2025
Consultation start
29 September 2025
Consultation end
22 October 2025
Application expires
24 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3 Piccadilly Place Manchester M1 3BN

Planning decision

Statutory period
68 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Eden SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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, 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, 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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