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

7/2024/5300AmendmentWithdrawn
Discharge / amendments

Withdrawn on 12 February 2025

Council decision: Not Proceeded With/Not Determined/Superseded

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

BUILDING Change of use of the Land to residential, including the erection of a building, and the carrying out of associated works to facilitate the residential use including the erection of timber decking with steps, the installation of steel box section posts and the construction of a concrete blockwork wall to the underside of the building.

Received
3 June 2024
Council
Lake District
Ward
Ambleside & Grasmere Ward
  1. Received3 Jun
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Jun
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 251 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The River House Retreat, Clappersgate, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9NQ. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 254 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There has been 1 other application 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
Amendment
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2024
Target decision date
4 June 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
2189 days

Appeal

Appeal type
Hearing

Additional information

UPRN
MAN000000000002967
Documents
26

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)Part of the site
  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • National park: Lake District
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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    3 Jun

    BUILDING Change of use of the Land to residential, including the erection of a building, and the carrying out…

    This applicationWithdrawnAmendment7/2024/5300
  2. 2024
    3 Jun

    CARAVAN Change of use of the Land to residential, including the residential occupation of a caravan, and the…

    WithdrawnAmendmentFiled alongside7/2024/5301

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