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Lakeland Sheepskin Centre Warehouse, Rothay Road, Ambleside, LA22 0HQ

7/2022/5489Full Planning applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 October 2022

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use to result in a mixed use comprising warehouse, office, visitor’s centre, cafe and retail unit. Alterations and extensions including the addition of an external staircase to the north east elevation; an extension and alterations at first floor level to the south east elevation with the addition of an extension and a raised balcony and access to the car park (resubmission of expired planning permission 7/2018/5577)

Received
27 July 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Ambleside & Grasmere Ward
  1. Received27 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.24 Aug
  4. Target21 Sep
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Lakeland Sheepskin Centre Warehouse, Rothay Road, Ambleside, LA22 0HQ. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 0HQ
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2022
Consultation expiry
24 August 2022
Consultation end
24 August 2022
Target decision date
21 September 2022
Application expires
3 November 2022
Permission expires
5 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
98 days

Publicity

First advertised
11 August 2022
Site notice start
11 August 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11433616
UPRN
MAN000000000047863
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Lake District

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