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Belmount, Outgate, Hawkshead, LA22 0NJ

7/2025/5140Full Planning applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 15 August 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Material change of use of the building from use as a guesthouse to a flexible use as either a large holiday-let or as a single dwelling-house; conversion of the bank barn to create a dwelling as required for staff accommodation; new detached outbuildings; new conservatory within walled garden; works to boundary walls and gates; new sewage treatment plant and new ground source heat pump

Received
12 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Coniston and Hawkshead Ward
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated21 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided15 Aug

Decided in 147 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a conservatory at Belmount, Outgate, Hawkshead, LA22 0NJ. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 156 days, 14 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 92 applications across Coniston and Hawkshead 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 0NJ
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hawkshead
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 March 2025
Consultation expiry
16 April 2025
Consultation end
16 April 2025
Target decision date
15 May 2025
Application expires
12 September 2025
Permission expires
14 August 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
175 days

Publicity

First advertised
3 April 2025
Site notice start
10 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13785872
Documents
36

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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. 2025
    12 Mar

    Material change of use of the building from use as a guesthouse to a flexible use as either a large…

    This applicationApprovedFull7/2025/5140
  2. 2025
    12 Mar

    External and internal alterations to the house to reinstate as a single dwelling; open ironwork porches to…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside7/2025/5141

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    5 Mar

    Change of use to single dwellinghouse

    ApprovedOutline7/2024/E0040

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