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Aphrodites Hotel, Longtail Hill, Bowness on Windermere, LA23 3JD

7/2025/5675Full Planning applicationRefused
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Refused on 25 March 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Siting of 2 no. shipping containers for storage use in association with the main hotel on a temporary basis (retrospective)

Received
5 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Bowness and Lyth Ward
  1. Received5 Dec
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Mar
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Aphrodites Hotel, Longtail Hill, Bowness on Windermere, LA23 3JD. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Bowness and Lyth 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 3JD
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Windermere
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2026
Target decision date
10 March 2026
Application expires
22 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
98 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14542281
UPRN
MAN000000000032293
Documents
12

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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