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Stonethwaite, Elterwater, Ambleside, LA22 9HW

7/2025/5348CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 5 May 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Refused

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of annexe to self-contained holiday let

Received
4 June 2025
Council
Lake District
Ward
Windermere and Ambleside Ward, Ambleside & Grasmere Ward
  1. Received4 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Aug
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 313 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Stonethwaite, Elterwater, Ambleside, LA22 9HW. Lake District has handled 309 applications of this type. This one was decided in 335 days, 40 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Windermere and Ambleside Ward, Ambleside & Grasmere 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 9HW
Application type
CLEUD - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2025
Target decision date
20 August 2025
Application expires
25 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14069493
UPRN
10003953865
Documents
12

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
  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • National park: Lake District
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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