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

7/2025/4107 - BNG - Confirmation of Compliance Approved

Proposal

Approval of details reserved by condition 3 on planning permission , Slurry Tower - Biodiversity Net Gain Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

17 Dec 2025

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Validated

23 Dec 2025

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Approved

5 Feb 2026

Approved on 5 Feb 2026 · Committee · Last checked 5 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Lake District Development Control Committee on 4 Feb 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the proposed on-site measures would achieve more than 10% biodiversity net gain and meet the condition’s requirements.
No statutory consultation or publicity applied to this application.
Members unanimously approved the application unconditionally.

Read how the committee decided The proposed biodiversity measures, officers’ assessment, and the committee’s decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Lake District's committee minutes of 4 Feb 2026.

Documents

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Associated applications 3

Part of

FullApproved4 Jul 2025council archive

Conditions 3 discharged
- ConditionsApproval of details reserved by condition 3, Slurry Tower - Biodiversity Net GainThis application23 Dec 20257/2025/4107
- AmendmentNon-material amendment (Slurry Tower) to confirm exac23 Sep 20257/2025/4075

Site constraints 11

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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.

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