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Shoe Craft House, Market Place, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9BU

7/2015/5385Full Planning applicationRefused
Full

Refused on 19 August 2015

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from Retail (A1) to Restaurant & Cafe (A3)

Received
3 July 2015
Council
Lake District
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Shoe Craft House, Market Place, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9BU. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,502 applications in total for the LA22 postcode area.

88% of full applications at Lake District were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA22 9BU
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Plans and Documents Application Form ApplicationFormNoPersonalData.pdf Heritage statement K803 Sheepskin - Heritage Statement.pdf Site location and existing plans K803-P-01 revA - SIte Location Existing Floor Plan.pdf Officer's report 2015_5385Delrep.pdf Decision Notice 2015_5385DN.pdf Find out more about commenting on an application Swift LG Ltd © 2007 HTS Name: wphappdetail01-default.hts Logical ID: WPHAPPDETAIL

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Ambleside
  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • National park: Lake District
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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