Land at Hodbarrow Nature Reserve, Millom Data via plota.co.uk

4/26/2280/0F1 Pending

Proposal

Foul drainage connection to mainsgate load public sewer Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 07:25

Application progress

✓

Received

7 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 2 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 2 Nov 2026 and 11 Nov 2026, from recent full applications across the UK.

Documents 14

Site constraints 7

Ramsar wetland: Duddon Estuary

3 designations overlap here. A habitats assessment is needed.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

SSSI: Duddon Mosses SSSI

Natural England must be consulted on work that may affect it.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Public byway open to all traffic about 15 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.

Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Habitat network: Maritime cliff and slope

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 ↗

Not affected

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.

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Important details

Council: Copeland
Received: 7 Sept 2026
Validated: 7 Sept 2026
Parish: Millom
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: HG Associates

Decision outlook

Day 51 of the 56-day target. Councils usually decide full applications by day 56.

prediction

Day 515 days to the 56-day target

51%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

143,608decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent full applications in Copeland to go on. 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

Land at Hodbarrow Nature Reserve, Millom Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 14

Statements & assessments 7

Plans & drawings 3

Application forms 1

Other documents 3

Site constraints 7

Important details

Decision outlook