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Plum Tree Cottage, Lyth, Kendal, LA8 8DD

7/2025/5264CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 14 August 2025

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to a garden

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Bowness and Lyth Ward
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated28 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Jul
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Plum Tree Cottage, Lyth, Kendal, LA8 8DD. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 8 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Bowness and Lyth Ward. We hold 626 applications in total for the LA8 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
LA8 8DD
Application type
CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Crosthwaite and Lyth
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 May 2025
Target decision date
22 July 2025
Application expires
30 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 June 2025

Appeal history

3376174
Dismissed
Type: Lawful Development CertificateProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 28 May 2026Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13973770
UPRN
10003960421
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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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