Hollins View Farm Brough Sowerby Kirkby Stephen CA17 4DF Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1473/PAPP - Prior Approval Approved
AgriculturalCommercial & major works

Proposal

Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 6, class A, for extension to an agricultural storage building. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 Jul 2026
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Validated
29 Jul 2026
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Approved
25 Aug 2026

Approved on 25 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 15 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 7

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Eden 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.
Public bridleway about 12 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.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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
Nature recovery project: East of Eden; National infrastructure project about 1971 m away: A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project.
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 Planning Inspectorate, 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
Westmorland and Furness
Application type
Prior Approval
Postcode
CA17 4DF
Received
22 Jul 2026
Validated
29 Jul 2026
Ward
Appleby and Brough
Parish
Brough Sowerby
Case officer
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Decision
Prior Approval Not Required
Decision date
25 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 27 days from validation, about the council's usual 27 days. Approved, as 89% of agricultural works here are.

82%decided within 8 weeks
89%approved
124decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
25 Aug 2026

Historical activity at this location

8 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
Non Material Amendment to change the slurry store construction material from metal panels…
2024/0836/NMA
2024 Approved
Non Material Amendment to change the slurry store construction material from metal panels…
2024/0836/NMA
2022 Approved
Erection of slurry store.
22/0104
2020 Approved
Extension to agricultural building.
20/0969
2020 Approved
Extension to agricultural building.
20/0969
2018 Approved
Erection of portal frame building over existing silage clamp.
18/0116
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Approved
HOLLINS VIEW, BROUGH SOWERBY, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4DF
Proposed agricultural building.
16/1054
2016 Approved
HOLLINS VIEW, BROUGH SOWERBY, KIRKBY STEPHEN, CA17 4DF
Proposed agricultural building.
16/1054
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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings