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Orchard Cottage 40 Leighton Beck Road Slack Head CARNFORTH LA7 7AX

2025/1981/TCATree in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 13 November 2025

Council decision: Tree CA No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1-Cedar Deodar-Fell-Close to property and out-grown it's location.Blocking light and the needles have caused the roof valley to block which has caused damage to the internals of the property. T2-Buthan Pine-Fell-adjacent to T1 with same issues as T1. T3-Maple-Crown raise over roof of stables and car parking area to height of 8m (approximately).

Received
15 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Kent Estuary
  1. Received15 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Orchard Cottage 40 Leighton Beck Road Slack Head CARNFORTH LA7 7AX. Westmorland and Furness has handled 1,133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Beetham conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Kent Estuary. We hold 625 applications in total for the LA7 postcode area.

99% of trees 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
LA7 7AX
Application type
Tree in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Beetham

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2025
Application expires
25 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3 Brookfield Close Holme Carnforth LA61QW

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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: Beetham
  • National Landscape (AONB): Arnside & Silverdale
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, 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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