Below Stairs, Church Street, Ambleside, LA22 0BU
Approved on 3 March 2020
Council decision: Approved UnconditionallyDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of air conditioning unit on rear elevation of the property, and installation of compressor housing on side elevation (retrospective)
- Received
- 16 October 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lake District
- Ward
- Ambleside and Grasmere Ward
- ReceivedReceived16 Oct
- ValidatedValidated9 Jan
- Consult.Consultation5 Feb
- TargetTarget Date4 Mar
- DecidedDecided3 Mar
Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Below Stairs, Church Street, Ambleside, LA22 0BU. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 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.
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
- Medium
- Parish
- Lakes
- District
- South Lakeland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 January 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 5 February 2020
- Consultation end
- 5 February 2020
- Target decision date
- 4 March 2020
- Application expires
- 31 March 2020
- Permission expires
- 2 March 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 82 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 23 January 2020
- Site notice start
- 31 January 2020
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08229824
- UPRN
- 100110756522
- Documents
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Ambleside
- National park: Lake District
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Lake District
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