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

2026/0309/TCATree in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 9 March 2026

Council decision: Tree CA No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1) Lawson Cypress, Fell. Poor form supressed by surrounding trees, Bark inclusion and liable to failure.

Received: 10 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Westmorland and Furness
Ward: Kent Estuary

ReceivedReceived10 Feb
ValidatedValidated10 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided9 Mar

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Orchard Cottage 40 Leighton Beck Road Slack Head MILNTHORPE LA7 7AX. Westmorland and Furness has handled 1,133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 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: 10 February 2026
Application expires: 23 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 3 Brookfield Close Holme CARNFORTH LA6 1QW

Planning decision

Statutory period: 41 days

Additional information

Documents: 5

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.

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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.

Source: Westmorland and Furness

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