Barn East of Town End Farm Great Strickland PENRITH CA10 3DF
Refused on 16 March 2026
Delegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal
Proposal
Change of use of a barn to a dwelling including associated operations.
- Received
- 20 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Ward
- Eden and Lyvennet Vale
- ReceivedReceived20 Jan
- ValidatedValidated20 Jan
- Consult.Consultation12 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided16 Mar
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Barn East of Town End Farm Great Strickland PENRITH CA10 3DF. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Eden and Lyvennet Vale. We hold 1,695 applications in total for the CA10 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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Why it was refused
- The proposed conversion of the agricultural building to a dwelling would require the construction of a substantial new access track approximately 450m in length across open countryside in order to connect the site to the public highway. The introduction of this engineered feature, together with the associated domestic activity, would result in a prominent and incongruous feature within the rural landscape that would fail to enhance the immediate setting of the building and would instead erode the rural character of the area. The proposal therefore represents unjustified isolated residential development in the countryside and is contrary to Policy RUR3 and Policy DEV5 of the Eden Local Plan and paragraph 84 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
- The proposed alterations to the building, in particular the formation of a large glazed opening within the gable elevation and the extent of additional glazing proposed, would introduce an overly domestic form of development that fails to respect the South Lakeland House, Lowther Street, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4DQ westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk simple, robust and utilitarian character of the traditional agricultural building. As such, the proposal would detract from the agricultural character of the building and would fail to represent a sympathetic conversion, contrary to Policies RUR3 and DEV5 of the Eden Local Plan.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- CA10 3DF
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Strickland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 12 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 2 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 12 March 2026
- Application expires
- 17 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- By Email
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 March 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 35
Site constraints
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.
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© 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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Source: Westmorland and Furness
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