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The River House Retreat, Clappersgate, Ambleside, LA22 9NQ

7/2024/5187CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 2 May 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

The building works undertaken are those associated with the construction on site of a building to create a dwellinghouse, including external works to the shell with steel lintel and window and internal fit out

Received
5 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Ambleside & Grasmere Ward
  1. Received5 Apr
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Jun
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The River House Retreat, Clappersgate, Ambleside, LA22 9NQ. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker 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.

74% of amendment 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 9NQ
Application type
CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 April 2024
Target decision date
2 June 2024
Application expires
30 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12952858
UPRN
MAN000000000002966
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.

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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