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Barns at Kaker Mill Preston Patrick Milnthorpe LA7 7NZ

2026/0723/PACOUPrior Approval - Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 16 July 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required & ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

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

Proposal

Prior Notification under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q for the change of use of an agricultural building to two dwellinghouses, with demolition of existing lean-to structures.

Received
8 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
Ward
Levens and Crooklands
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated13 Apr
  3. Consult.8 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Jul

Decided in 94 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Barns at Kaker Mill Preston Patrick Milnthorpe LA7 7NZ. Westmorland and Furness has handled 382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Levens and Crooklands. We hold 625 applications in total for the LA7 postcode area.

85% of amendment 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 7NZ
Application type
Prior Approval - Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Preston Patrick

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 April 2026
Consultation expiry
8 May 2026
Consultation start
16 April 2026
Consultation end
8 May 2026
Application expires
7 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Swallow Barn Blindcrake CA13 0QP

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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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