The Swan Hotel, Keswick Road, Grasmere, Ambleside, LA22 9RF
Approved on 19 February 2026
Council decision: Complies with ConditionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Approval of details reserved by condition 9 (external lighting) on planning permission 7/2018/5182 - proposal to provide a new staff accommodation block with relevant landscaping, bins and bikes storage in the northern part of the Macdonald Swan Hotel site
- Received
- 17 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lake District
- Ward
- Windermere and Ambleside Ward
- ReceivedReceived17 Dec
- ValidatedValidated5 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date1 Mar
- DecidedDecided19 Feb
Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at The Swan Hotel, Keswick Road, Grasmere, Ambleside, LA22 9RF. Lake District has handled 670 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days 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. In the past year there have been 252 applications across Windermere and Ambleside Ward. We hold 1,502 applications in total for the LA22 postcode area.
94% of conditions 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 9RF
- Application type
- Confirmation of compliance with condition attached to planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lakes
- District
- South Lakeland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 1 March 2026
- Application expires
- 3 February 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Additional information
- UPRN
- MAN000000000047624
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Tree Preservation Order: TPO-27AProtected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
- National park: Lake District
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, 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
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© 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.
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Source: Lake District
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