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Spot Community Building Victoria Road ULVERSTON LA12 0BZ

2025/2376/FPAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 April 2026

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use from Use Class E(g)(iii) (existing light industrial/workshop use) to a mixed-use community facility (Use Classes F2(a), F2(b), and E(g)(iii)), to a mixed use facility for community groups and public hire. Works include replacement of roof with insulated panels and PV installation, new windows and doors, internal reconfiguration, and minor external alterations to the south elevation for access, loading bay, and small store, with no significant changes to principal street frontages.

Received
10 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Ulverston
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Apr

Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Spot Community Building Victoria Road ULVERSTON LA12 0BZ. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Ulverston conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Ulverston. We hold 2,023 applications in total for the LA12 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
LA12 0BZ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ulverston

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025
Consultation expiry
30 January 2026
Consultation start
18 December 2025
Consultation end
30 January 2026
Application expires
1 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
130 Highgate Kendal LA9 4HE

Planning decision

Statutory period
105 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
29 January 2026
Site notice start
9 January 2026

Additional information

Documents
32

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: Ulverston
  • 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.

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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