Land North of Whitbarrow Berrier End Berrier PENRITH CA11 0XA Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1491/SCREEN - Screening Opinion Decided
Solar & renewables

Proposal

EIA Screening opinion for a solar farm. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Jul 2026
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EIA Not Required
30 Sept 2026

EIA Not Required on 30 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 30 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Public bridleway about 18 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.
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
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
Priority habitat about 7 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present; 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 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
Screening Opinion
Postcode
CA11 0XA
Received
17 Jul 2026
Validated
17 Jul 2026
Ward
Greystoke and Ullswater
Parish
Mungrisdale, Hutton, Greystoke
Case officer
Show
Decision
EIA Not Required
Decision date
30 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Stantec

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
25 Aug 2026
Comments by
15 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry
6 Aug 2026

Historical activity at this location

11 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Land at Barffs Wood Greystoke Penrith CA11 0XA
Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 6, class A, for the erection of an agricultural…
2025/0778/PAPP
2025 Approved
Land at Barffs Wood Greystoke Penrith CA11 0XA
Prior Notification under schedule 2, part 6, class A, for the erection of an agricultural…
2025/0778/PAPP
2022 Approved
BERRIER END, BERRIER, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Permitted Development Prior Notification for alteration to track.
22/0169
2022 Approved
BERRIER END, BERRIER, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Permitted Development Prior Notification for alteration to track.
22/0169
2021 Approved
FIELD AT BARFFS WOOD, GREYSTOKE, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Permitted Development Prior Notification to roof over existing handling area.
21/0527
2021 Approved
FIELD AT BARFFS WOOD, GREYSTOKE, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Permitted Development Prior Notification to roof over existing handling area.
21/0527
2020 Approved
BERRIER END, BERRIER, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Proposed roof over midden and concreating of yard areas.
20/0517
2017 Approved
BERRIER END FARM, BERRIER, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Proposed roof over existing agricultural yard.
17/0600
2017 Approved
BERRIER END FARM, BERRIER, PENRITH, CA11 0XA
Proposed roof over existing agricultural yard.
17/0600
2016 Approved
BERRIER END FARM, BERRIER, PENRITH, CUMBRIA, CA11 0XA
Proposed roof over agricultural yard.
16/0663
2016 Approved
BERRIER END FARM, BERRIER, PENRITH, CUMBRIA, CA11 0XA
Proposed roof over agricultural yard.
16/0663
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