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Guards Farm, KIRKBY-IN-FURNESS, LA17 7TU

SL/2023/0635Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 30 October 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of land for the siting of two shepherds huts

Received
22 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Westmorland and Furness
  1. Received22 Aug
  2. Validated6 Sep
  3. Consult.3 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Guards Farm, KIRKBY-IN-FURNESS, LA17 7TU. Westmorland and Furness has handled 6,152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Westmorland and Furness's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 215 applications in total for the LA17 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
LA17 7TU
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kirkby Ireleth

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 September 2023
Consultation expiry
3 October 2023
Consultation start
6 September 2023
Consultation end
3 October 2023
Application expires
1 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Office A, Bradley Hill Farm, , Preston, PR3 0GA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 September 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    17 Jan

    Change of use of land for the siting of two shepherds huts (Resubmission of SL/2023/0635

    ApprovedFull ApplicationRelated2024/0074/FPA
  2. 2023
    22 Aug

    Change of use of land for the siting of two shepherds huts

    This applicationRefusedFullSL/2023/0635

Source: Westmorland and Furness

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