Eskett and Rowrah Quarries, east of the village of Frizington and the south of the village of Rowrah. Data via plota.co.uk

SCR-4/25/55 Decided

Proposal

Screening Opinion request for establishing and operating a construction and demolition recycling facility including the establishment and use of a foam mix plant and the retention and use of existing buildings and ancillary facilities including the existing site access Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 26 Oct 2026, 12:21

Application progress

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Received

12 Dec 2025

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Not EIA Development

11 Feb 2026

Not EIA Development on 11 Feb 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 26 Oct 2026

Documents 7

Plans & drawings 3

PDF Eskett_E307_00007_01_Location Plan.pdf Document · 12 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Eskett_E307_00007_02_Existing Situation Plan.pdf Document · 12 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Eskett_E307_00007_03_Site Layout Plan DRAFT.pdf Document · 12 Dec 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Natural England Response 12.01.26.pdf Document · 12 Jan 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 8

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.

Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

Coal mining risk assessments ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

National nature reserve about 417 m away: High Leys; SSSI about 417 m away: High Leys SSSI; Inside the Arlecdon built-up area; 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 18 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: Cumbria Minerals and Waste
Validated: 12 Dec 2025
Case officer: Show
Decision: Not EIA Development
Decision date: 11 Feb 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: David L Walker Limited - Dan Walker