Lumley Fee, Helsington, Kendal, LA8 8AQ
Approved on 24 July 2025
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use from a Bunkhouse (Sui Generis) to a private single residential dwelling (use class C3) as a primary residence
- Received
- 2 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lake District
- Ward
- Levens and Crooklands Ward
- ReceivedReceived2 May
- ValidatedValidated12 May
- Consult.Consultation4 Jun
- TargetTarget Date6 Jul
- DecidedDecided24 Jul
Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Lumley Fee, Helsington, Kendal, LA8 8AQ. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 626 applications in total for the LA8 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
- LA8 8AQ
- Application type
- Full Planning application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Helsington
- District
- South Lakeland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 4 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 4 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 July 2025
- Application expires
- 15 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 23 July 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 95 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 22 May 2025
- Site notice start
- 11 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13980344
- UPRN
- MAN000000000007115
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National park: Lake District
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, 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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