Parsonage Farm, Silecroft, Millom, LA18 5LS Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 7/2025/4075 - Non material amendments

Admin / procedural

Council

Lake District

Date received

22 Sept 2025

Date validated

23 Sept 2025

Decision date

13 Nov 2025

Postcode

LA18 5LS

Type

Non material amendments

Description

Non-material amendment to application (Slurry Tower) to confirm exac Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 13 Oct 2026, 06:33

Planning committee

Decided by Lake District Development Control Committee on 5 Nov 2025.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the smaller tower and green colour would not materially alter the approved development or its impacts.
The application concerned confirming the tower’s reduced diameter and green colour; no representations were required for this type of amendment.
The committee unanimously approved the application unconditionally.

Read how the committee decided The proposed changes, officers’ assessment and the committee’s unanimous decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Lake District's committee minutes of 5 Nov 2025.

Associated applications 3

Part of

FullApproved4 Jul 2025council archive

Conditions 3 discharged
- AmendmentNon-material amendment (Slurry Tower) to confirm exacThis application23 Sep 20257/2025/4075
- ConditionsApproval of details reserved by condition 3, Slurry Tower - Biodiversity Net Gain23 Dec 20257/2025/4107

Site constraints 6

Lake District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

World heritage site: The English Lake District

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 4. 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 Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; 1 listed building within 150 m.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 12 October 2026. 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.