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The Courthouse, Burneside Road, KENDAL, LA9 4NF

SL/2019/0841Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 26 March 2021

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Demolition of existing building and redevelopment to form 64 retirement living apartments for older people (sixty years of age and/or partner over fifty five years of age), guest apartment, communal facilities, access, car parking and landscaping

Received
17 October 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Council
Westmorland and Furness
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated5 Nov
  3. Consult.4 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 507 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Courthouse, Burneside Road, KENDAL, LA9 4NF. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 526 days, 67 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,150 applications in total for the LA9 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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Application details

Postcode
LA9 4NF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Kendal

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 November 2019
Consultation expiry
4 March 2021
Consultation start
12 November 2019
Consultation end
4 March 2021
Committee meeting
25 March 2021
Application expires
26 March 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Churchill House, , RINGWOOD, BH24 3SG

Planning decision

Statutory period
507 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
4 March 2021
Site notice start
21 November 2019

Additional information

Documents
120

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 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Brownfield land register: Kendal Magistrates' CourtRegister site at or near this address

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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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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