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Below Stairs, Church Street, Ambleside, LA22 0BU

7/2018/5152Full Planning applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 4 May 2018

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of A1 shop to A3 restaurant and new connecting door

Submitted
6 March 2018
Council
Lake District
  1. Received6 Mar
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 May

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Below Stairs, Church Street, Ambleside, LA22 0BU. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 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 0BU
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lakes

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Plans and Documents Application form ApplicationFormNoPersonalData.pdf Site location plan Location Plan.doc Proposed plan Proposed.pdf Existing plan Existing.pdf Heritage, design and access statement HDAS.pdf reply from highways 720185152.pdf reply from parish council Plans_decisions_28_March_Lakes_Parish_Council.pdf Reply from Environmental Health Officer 5152_Environmental_Protection.pdf Find out more about commenting on an application Swift LG Ltd © 2007 HTS Name: wphappdetail01-default.hts Logical ID: WPHAPPDETAIL

Additional information

Documents
10

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2018
    6 Mar

    Change of use of A1 shop to A3 restaurant and new connecting door

    This applicationApprovedFull7/2018/5152
  2. 2018
    6 Mar

    Change of use of A1 shop to A3 restaurant and new connecting door

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside7/2018/5153

Source: Lake District

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