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St.Mary's Church PCC, Vicarage Road, Ambleside, LA22 9DH

7/2017/5247Full Planning applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 July 2017

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

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

Proposal

Hard and soft landscaping of church grounds including alterations to car parking. External alterations to the church and the Parish Centre.

Submitted
22 May 2017
Council
Lake District
  1. Received22 May
  2. Validated22 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Jul

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at St.Mary's Church PCC, Vicarage Road, Ambleside, LA22 9DH. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 9DH
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lakes

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 May 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Plans and Documents Application form ApplicationFormNoPersonalData.pdf Tree survey Tree report_Doc2_St Marys Church Ambleside TPP A4.pdf Tree survey Tree report_Doc.1_AIA Ambleside St Marys Church V3.pdf Tree survey Tree report_Doc3_BS5837 Ambleside St Mary's Church schedule.pdf The location plan StMarys_Existing site Plan 1 to 1250 @A3.pdf Existing site plan St.Marys Church_CR_00_01_Existing site plan 1 to 500.pdf Landscape plan St.Marys Church_CR_00_02_Landscape plan 1 to 250@A2.pdf Existing features St.Marys Church_CR_00_04_Existing features plan 1 to 250@A2.pdf Lighting plan St.Marys Church_CR_00_03_Lighting plan 1 to 250@A2.pdf Drainage and levels plan St.Marys Church_CR_00_05_Drainage and Levels plan 1 to 250@A2.pdf Design, access and heritage statement St Mary's Church Design & Access and Heritage Statement_February 2017.pdf Appendix 4Perpsective drawing Appendix 4_St.Mary's Church_Perspective Drawing from Compston Rd Entrance_02.pdf Appendix 3Perpsective drawing Appendix 3_St.Mary's Perspective drawing from Vivarage Road_01..pdf Appendix 7Correspondence from Historic England Appendix 7-Correspondance from Historic England.pdf Appendix 6Correspondence from LDNP Appendix 6_Correspondance from LDNP.pdf Appendix 5 Visual Impact Assessment Appendix 5_Visual Impact Assessment.pdf Appendix 2 Site Analysis Appendix 2_Site Analysis Document_July 2016.pdf Appendix 1 existing site plan Appendix 1_StMarys_Existing site Plan 1 to 1250 @A3.pdf Layout plan 5247_5248_St.Marys_Church_Signage.pdf Listed building description www.historicengland.org.uk.pdf CCC Right of Way comments 720175247.pdf Parish Council comments Lakes_PC.pdf Highway and LLFA comments 5247ha.pdf Find out more about commenting on an application Swift LG Ltd © 2007 HTS Name: wphappdetail01-default.hts Logical ID: WPHAPPDETAIL

Additional information

Documents
26

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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