Land West of Fold Gardens Great Salkeld Penrith CA11 9FT Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0629/PIP - Permission in Principle Committee Meeting
New homes

Proposal

Permission in Principle application for a residential development of between 1 and 9 dwellings. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Mar 2026
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Committee
22 Jul 2026
Decision
Expected by 19 May 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 4 Oct 2026; it is now day 194. The consultation period closed on 2 May 2026.

Planning committee

Deferred by Westmorland and Furness Eden Local Area Planning Committee on 22 Jul 2026. Earlier deferred on 10 Jun 2026.

Deferred unanimously

  • Officers advised approval because the tilted balance applied and the location, land use and lower amount of development were acceptable in principle.
  • The parish council and residents raised concerns about countryside encroachment, the conservation area, highways, drainage, flooding and sustainability.
  • The committee unanimously deferred the application to clarify conservation area implications and discuss the new Local Plan.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee debate and decision to defer.

Source: Plota analysis of Westmorland and Furness's committee minutes of 22 Jul 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Great Salkeld conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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 Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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 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
Permission in Principle
Postcode
CA11 9FT
Received
24 Mar 2026
Validated
24 Mar 2026
Ward
Hesket and Lazonby
Parish
Great Salkeld
Case officer
Show
Decision level
Committee
Applicant
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Agent
Addis Town Planning Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 194, past the statutory target. 70% of new homes in Westmorland and Furness are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 26 Sept 2026.

Day 194138 days past the 56-day target
43%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
58decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
2 Apr 2026
Comments by
2 May 2026
Site or press notice
10 Apr 2026
Committee
10 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
12 Jun 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2022 Approved
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2022 Approved
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2022 Approved
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2022 Approved
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2021 Refused
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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
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings