Alma's Meadow, Smithy Lane, Bowness-on-Windermere, LA23 3HT
Refused on 2 April 2026
Planning committee
Proposal
Six holiday accommodation pods for disadvantaged children and partial change of use of existing agricultural field
- Received
- 17 December 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Lake District
- Ward
- Bowness and Lyth Ward
- ReceivedReceived17 Dec
- ValidatedValidated21 Jan
- Consult.Consultation11 Feb
- TargetTarget Date17 Mar
- DecidedDecided2 Apr
Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Alma's Meadow, Smithy Lane, Bowness-on-Windermere, LA23 3HT. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 7 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. 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 3HT
- Application type
- Full Planning application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Windermere
- District
- South Lakeland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 11 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 11 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 17 March 2026
- Application expires
- 30 April 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 99 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 29 January 2026
- Site notice start
- 6 February 2016
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14452071
- UPRN
- MAN000000000009620
- Documents
- 122
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Tree Preservation Order: TPO-007AProtected tree on or next to this site
- National park: Lake District
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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
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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