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Barn at Mellguards Farm Mellguards Southwaite Carlisle CA4 0LE

2025/2022/PACOUPrior Approval - Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 28 January 2026

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 the change of use of an agricultural building to 3no dwellinghouses.

Received
20 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Hesket and Lazonby
  1. Received20 Oct
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.28 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 75 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Barn at Mellguards Farm Mellguards Southwaite Carlisle CA4 0LE. Westmorland and Furness has handled 382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 100 days, 6 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Hesket and Lazonby. We hold 1,007 applications in total for the CA4 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
CA4 0LE
Application type
Prior Approval - Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hesket

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Consultation expiry
28 December 2025
Consultation start
19 November 2025
Consultation end
28 December 2025
Application expires
30 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Croft Stanwix Carlisle CA9 3BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
77 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
20

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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