Riddings Farm Lowick Green Ulverston LA12 8EA

2026/1497/PAPPPrior ApprovalApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 August 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

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

Proposal

Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 6, class A, for the construction of a bale pad to a larger area with better access for farm traffic away from any water courses.

Received: 27 July 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Westmorland and Furness
Ward: Coniston and Hawkshead

ReceivedReceived27 Jul
ValidatedValidated27 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided19 Aug

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Riddings Farm Lowick Green Ulverston LA12 8EA. Westmorland and Furness has handled 788 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 5 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 6 applications across Coniston and Hawkshead. We hold 2,021 applications in total for the LA12 postcode area.

88% of outline 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 8EA
Application type: Prior Approval
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Lowick

Planning application dates

Date validated: 27 July 2026
Application expires: 23 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Riddings Farm Lowick Green Ulverston LA12 8EA

Planning decision

Case officer: Sonja Swift
Statutory period: 27 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.

Flood zone 3: High 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.

Source: Westmorland and Furness

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