Smallwood House Hotel, Compston Road, Ambleside, LA22 9DJ

7/2019/5444S73 (Amend/Delete Condition)Approved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 15 August 2019

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Removal of conditions 3 (basement details) & 5 (energy supply) on planning application 7/2016/5672 - Change of use from hotel (C1) to residential (C3) to facilitate the development of up to five apartments, without alteration to the external appearance.

Received: 10 July 2019
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Lake District
Ward: Ambleside and Grasmere Ward

ReceivedReceived10 Jul
ValidatedValidated10 Jul
Consult.Consultation7 Aug
TargetTarget Date3 Sep
DecidedDecided15 Aug

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to remove a condition at Smallwood House Hotel, Compston Road, Ambleside, LA22 9DJ. Lake District has handled 670 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Ambleside and Grasmere Ward. We hold 1,502 applications in total for the LA22 postcode area.

94% of conditions 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 9DJ
Application type: S73 (Amend/Delete Condition)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Lakes
District: South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated: 10 July 2019
Consultation expiry: 7 August 2019
Consultation end: 7 August 2019
Target decision date: 3 September 2019
Application expires: 8 August 2019
Permission expires: 14 August 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Publicity

First advertised: 18 July 2019
Site notice start: 16 July 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-07989710
UPRN: 100110756902
Documents: 4

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Conservation area: Ambleside
World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
National park: Lake District

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.

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Associated applications

2019
10 Jul
Removal of conditions 3 (basement details) & 5 (energy supply) on planning application 7/2016/5672
This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)7/2019/5444
2016
30 Sep
Change of use from hotel (C1) to residential (C3) to facilitate the development of up to five apartments…
ApprovedFull Planning applicationPart of7/2016/5672

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Lake District

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