Eccle Riggs Cottage Eccle Riggs Lane BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS LA20 6BW Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1543/FPA - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Installation of 18 ground mounted solar panels in garden Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Aug 2026
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Validated
21 Aug 2026
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Approved
16 Oct 2026

Approved on 16 Oct 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Site constraints 6

Public footpath about 7 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; National park about 278 m away: Lake District; Priority habitat about 13 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £101,750 in April 1998. Detached house, freehold.

24 April 1998£101,750

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Full Application
Postcode
LA20 6BW
Received
3 Aug 2026
Validated
21 Aug 2026
Ward
High Furness
Parish
Duddon
Case officer
Show
Decision
Approved with Conditions
Decision date
16 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Charity

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 17 days faster than Westmorland and Furness's median of 73 for full applications. Approved, as 93% of full applications here are.

31%decided within 8 weeks
93%approved
315decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Westmorland and Furness in the last twelve months, from validation. Westmorland and Furness decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
27 Aug 2026
Comments by
5 Oct 2026
Site or press notice
14 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry
16 Oct 2026
Westmorland and Furness
Planning Authority Score
3.1/10
Poor
#233 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Westmorland and Furness is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #235 out of 296. 52% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Westmorland and Furness decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #96 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #145 of 296
51%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #235 of 296
52%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #238 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
69 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
89%
Change of use approved
135 decided
1,204
Total decisions
91 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.