Leighton Beck Bridge Slack Head Milnthorpe LA7 7BA

2026/0409/OHLIOverhead Electricity LineApproved

Approved on 25 March 2026

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Notification under the Electricity Act 1989 Overhead Lines (Exeption) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 for an H pole in an existing electrical line

Received: 20 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Westmorland and Furness
Ward: Kent Estuary

ReceivedReceived20 Feb
ValidatedValidated20 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided25 Mar

Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Leighton Beck Bridge Slack Head Milnthorpe LA7 7BA. Westmorland and Furness has handled 61 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. 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.

94% of all 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 7BA
Application type: Overhead Electricity Line
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Beetham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 February 2026
Application expires: 20 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Parkside Road Kendal LA9 7DU

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 4

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (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, 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.

Source: Westmorland and Furness

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