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Brewhouse, Moor Lane, Flookburgh, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7LS

SL/2023/0203Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 12 May 2023

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from a brewery to a whisky distillery including to raising a portion of the roof to allow installation of a continuous still (Part retrospective)

Received
8 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
  1. Received8 Mar
  2. Validated15 Mar
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Brewhouse, Moor Lane, Flookburgh, GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, LA11 7LS. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,396 applications in total for the LA11 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
LA11 7LS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lower Holker

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 March 2023
Consultation expiry
7 April 2023
Consultation start
16 March 2023
Consultation end
7 April 2023
Application expires
12 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Sovereign Distillery, Ackhurst Business Park, CHORLEY, PR7 1NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
58 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 March 2023

Additional information

Documents
12

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.

© 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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