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

2025/2476/LBC - Listed Building Consent Approved

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for internal alterations including replacing two east elevation windows with timber conservation-style casements, relocating the hallway door and adding a fire door, blocking the kitchen opening, creating en-suites to bedrooms 1–3, adding a new window and escape door to bedroom 3, and reconfiguring the first-floor shower room and en-suite to bedroom 6, with a new en-suite and wardrobe to bedroom 4. 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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Committee
21 May 2026
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Approved
7 Jul 2026

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

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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

Application type
Listed Building Consent
Postcode
LA8 9DH
Received
29 Dec 2025
Validated
7 Jan 2026
Ward
Upper Kent
Parish
Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
Case officer
Show
Decision
Approved with Conditions
Decision date
7 Jul 2026
Decision level
Committee
Applicant
Show
Agent
Scalia Planning

How this decision compares

Decided in 181 days from validation, 114 days slower than Westmorland and Furness's median of 67 for listed building works. Approved, as 90% of listed building works here are.

31%decided within 8 weeks
90%approved
97decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building works 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
12 Feb 2026
Site or press notice
14 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
4 Mar 2026
Westmorland and Furness
Planning Authority Score
3.1/10
Poor
#233 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other 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