Search for a planning application

Last Updated: 16 July 2024

There are a number of different ways you can search for a planning applications, the planning register, the weekly list, or search archived planning applications.

Search for planning applications and weekly lists

Use our online mapping to find planning applications near your home, or near a specific address in the Eden or South Lakeland areas.

You can search for planning applications using quick search, search the planning register.

Information available on the planning register:

• the register contains all planning applications received by us from 1988
• for applications between 1988 and 2010 full documentation is not available on the register
• for applications after 2010 you can see all the documents (except financial or sensitive material) submitted with a planning application

Or you can search our weekly list of planning applications.

National parks

Large parts of our area are covered by national parks, which have their own planning authorities. If the planning application you are looking for is in a national park, you can find it on the park's websites:

• Lake District National Park planning
• Yorkshire Dales National Park planning

Search for archived planning applications

If you have a reference number we can find the information for you and send it to you by email. There is no charge for this service, unless you request printed information.

If you don't have a reference number please put your request in writing or email. Please give us as much detail as possible, including a location plan. We will do our best to retrieve the information for you. There is a charge for this service.

Planning application search fees

• searches for applications relating to individual dwellings, £39
• searches for most commercial or large developments, £78
• we may charge a pre-arranged fee for very complex sites

Contact us

South Lakeland area, Development Management (Kendal Office):

• Email: planning3@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
• Telephone: 0300 373 3300
• Address: South Lakeland House, Lowther Street, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4DQ

Eden area, Development Management (Penrith Office):

• Email: planning2@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
• Telephone: 0300 373 3300
• Address: Voreda House, Penrith, CA11 7YG