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The Old Police Station & Courthouse, Neville Street, ULVERSTON, LA12 7UJ

SL/2023/0400Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 21 December 2023

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Regeneration of the former Police Station and Courthouse, to mixed use development including C3 (dwellings), Class E (including offices and restaurant/café) and C1 (Hotel/Aparthotel) within the associated development, including retrospective demolition works (MAJOR APPLICATION)

Received
11 May 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Council
Westmorland and Furness
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated11 May
  3. Consult.8 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 224 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Old Police Station & Courthouse, Neville Street, ULVERSTON, LA12 7UJ. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 224 days, 24 weeks longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in the Ulverston conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,021 applications in total for the LA12 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
LA12 7UJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ulverston

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 May 2023
Consultation expiry
8 June 2023
Consultation start
15 May 2023
Consultation end
8 June 2023
Committee meeting
21 December 2023
Application expires
22 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Room 110, Ulverston Business Centre, , ULVERSTON, LA12 7LQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
225 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
8 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
69

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Ulverston
  • 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, 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.

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  4. 2025
    25 Apr

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  5. 2023
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    This applicationApprovedFullSL/2023/0400

Source: Westmorland and Furness

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