Steel House Townhead ALSTON CA9 3SL
Approved on 4 February 2026
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Retrospective application for the removal of peeling paint on the front elevation and subsequent coating of the front elevation with a limewash to match the underlying layer.
- Received
- 28 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Ward
- Alston and Fellside
- ReceivedReceived28 Nov
- ValidatedValidated12 Dec
- Consult.Consultation28 Jan
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided4 Feb
Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Steel House Townhead ALSTON CA9 3SL. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Alston conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Alston and Fellside. We hold 67 applications in total for the CA9 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
- CA9 3SL
- Application type
- Householder
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Alston Moor
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 28 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 22 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 28 January 2026
- Application expires
- 6 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Hazlecroft House Nenthead Alston CA93PY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 18 January 2026
- Site notice start
- 7 January 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Alston
- National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20262 Mar
Replacement of existing rooflights with double glazed rooflights, installation of additional rooflights to…
PendingHouseholder2026/0457/HOU - 202529 Dec
S211 Notification; Conservation Area tree works: Lilac Bush (T1) – full removal of tree, to provide more…
ApprovedTree in Conservation Area2025/2479/TCA
Source: Westmorland and Furness
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