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Newstead & New Lodge, New Road, Windermere, LA23 2EE

7/2025/5637Full Planning applicationApproved
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Approved on 5 February 2026

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective change of use from guest house to a single dwelling with permanent occupancy restriction or a single self-catering holiday unit (Newstead). Change of use from owners accommodation to a single dwelling with local occupancy restriction or a single holiday let unit (New Lodge)

Received
14 November 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Council
Lake District
Ward
Windermere and Ambleside Ward
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.17 Dec
  4. Target18 Jan
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Newstead & New Lodge, New Road, Windermere, LA23 2EE. 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 the Windermere 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 2EE
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Windermere
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Consultation expiry
17 December 2025
Consultation end
17 December 2025
Target decision date
18 January 2026
Application expires
5 March 2026
Permission expires
4 February 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
101 days

Publicity

First advertised
4 December 2025
Site notice start
8 December 2025

Additional information

UPRN
100110701223
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium 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

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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