Land to the East of Buildings at Blackdyke, Silloth, Wigton, CA7 4JG Data via plota.co.uk

FUL/2026/0105 - Full planning permission Under Consultation

Proposal

Construction and operation of a Battery Storage Project. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Validated
27 Aug 2026
✓
Received
around 30 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 22 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 5 Nov 2026, from Allerdale's recent full applications.

Site constraints 5

2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Causeway Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns/Byres, Grade II, about 23 m from the postcode pin · 2 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
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 ↗
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) agrees.
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 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 17 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
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 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
Allerdale
Application type
Full planning permission
Postcode
CA7 4JG
Received
around 30 Aug 2026
Validated
27 Aug 2026
Ward
Solway Coast
Parish
Holme Low
Case officer
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Target decision
22 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 43 of the 56-day target. Allerdale usually decides full applications by day 70.

Day 4327 days to the predicted decision (day 70)
37%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
141decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Allerdale in the last twelve months, from validation. Allerdale decision record →

Public comments

2comments received
2 neutral

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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