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The Workshop, Compston Street, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DP

7/2024/5530CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 29 November 2024

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of building as plumber’s store and office

Received
20 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Windermere and Ambleside Ward
  1. Received20 Sep
  2. Validated20 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided29 Nov

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Workshop, Compston Street, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DP. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 251 applications across Windermere and Ambleside Ward. 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 9DP
Application type
CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 September 2024
Target decision date
14 November 2024
Application expires
27 December 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
98 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 October 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13412623
UPRN
MAN000000000038390
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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