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Brook House, 30 Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AH

7/2025/5253Full Planning applicationApproved
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Approved on 11 July 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of guest house to create two units - (A) a single dwelling and (B) a single dwelling or single self-catering holiday let unit or HMO or guest house, with alteration to window and door opening to rear

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Windermere and Ambleside Ward
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated13 May
  3. Consult.11 Jun
  4. Target7 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Brook House, 30 Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AH. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 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. In the past year there have been 252 applications across Windermere and Ambleside Ward. We hold 1,493 applications in total for the LA23 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
LA23 2AH
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Windermere
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 May 2025
Consultation expiry
11 June 2025
Consultation end
11 June 2025
Target decision date
7 July 2025
Application expires
8 August 2025
Permission expires
10 July 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
87 days

Publicity

First advertised
29 May 2025
Site notice start
27 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13950728
UPRN
MAN000000000006675
Documents
20

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
  • Conservation area: Windermere
  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • National park: Lake District
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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

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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.

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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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