Kelton, 44 Asby Road, Asby Data via plota.co.uk

4/26/2247/0F1 Approved

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received

30 Jul 2026

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Approved

23 Sept 2026

Approved on 23 Sept 2026 · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 7

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Derwent & Bassenthwaite Lake SAC

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Special area of conservation about 403 m away: River Derwent & Bassenthwaite Lake; SSSI about 403 m away: Buttermere SSSI; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Copeland
Received: 30 Jul 2026
Validated: 30 Jul 2026
Parish: Arlecdon & Frizington
Case officer: Show
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 23 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Finesse PVCu Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 55 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 98% of extensions here are.

This one55d

Council56d

UK55d

75%decided within 8 weeks

98%approved

93decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Copeland in the last twelve months, from validation. Copeland decision record →

Cumberland

Planning Authority Score

4.9/10

Below average

#151 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Cumberland is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #239 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

97% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Cumberland decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

96%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #9 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #30 of 296

50%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #239 of 296

45%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #189 of 296

87%

Minor dwellings approved

128 decided (1-9 homes)

91%

Major dwellings approved

23 decided (10+ homes)

95%

Change of use approved

108 decided

1,169

Total decisions

49 refused in the year to March 2026