Dodding Green Dodding Holme Mealbank KENDAL LA8 9DH Data via plota.co.uk

2025/2475/FPA - Full Application Approved
Change of useSchools, care & community

Proposal

Change of Use of the former Presbytery and St Robert and St Alice Chapel to provide a centre for respite care, incorporating staff accommodation & religious chapel (Use Class Sui Generis) including the provision of workshops and meeting facilities within the former barn Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
29 Dec 2025
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Validated
7 Jan 2026
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Approved
7 Jul 2026

Approved on 7 Jul 2026 · Committee · Last checked 14 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
Special area of conservation about 52 m away: River Kent
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
SSSI about 52 m away: River Kent and Tributaries SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
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
Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
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
Westmorland and Furness
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
LA8 9DH
Received
29 Dec 2025
Validated
7 Jan 2026
Ward
Upper Kent
Parish
Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
Case officer
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Decision
Approved with Conditions
Decision date
7 Jul 2026
Decision level
Committee
Applicant
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Agent
Scalia Planning

How this decision compares

Decided in 181 days from validation, 115 days slower than Westmorland and Furness's median of 66 for changes of use. Approved, as 79% of changes of use here are.

41%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
71decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
9 Jan 2026
Comments by
19 Jun 2026
Site or press notice
29 May 2026
Statutory expiry
4 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025
Listed Building Consent for internal alterations including replacing two east elevation w…
2025/2476/LBC
2025
Listed Building Consent for internal alterations including replacing two east elevation w…
2025/2476/LBC
2018 Approved
Installation of driveway lighting and weatherproof power sockets, consisting of: (a) 16 l…
SL/2018/0049
2018 Approved
Installation of 16 lighting bollards (approx 1 metre high) with weatherproof power socket…
SL/2018/0048
2018 Approved
Installation of driveway lighting and weatherproof power sockets, consisting of: (a) 16 l…
SL/2018/0049
2018 Approved
Installation of 16 lighting bollards (approx 1 metre high) with weatherproof power socket…
SL/2018/0048
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved
8 Dodding Holme, Mealbank, KENDAL, LA8 9DH
Two storey side extension and creation of highway access for off street parking area
SL/2022/0207
2022 Approved
8 Dodding Holme, Mealbank, KENDAL, LA8 9DH
Two storey side extension and creation of highway access for off street parking area
SL/2022/0207
2016 Approved
6 Dodding Holme, Mealbank, KENDAL, LA8 9DH
Two storey side extension
SL/2016/0218
2016 Approved
6 Dodding Holme, Mealbank, KENDAL, LA8 9DH
Two storey side extension
SL/2016/0218
Westmorland and Furness
Planning Authority Score
3.1/10
Poor
#233 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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