Tarn Hows Car Park, Ambleside, LA21 8DP

7/2026/5020Full Planning applicationApproved

Full

Approved on 18 February 2026

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Installation of parking equipment and two new information signs

Received: 8 January 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Lake District
Ward: Coniston and Hawkshead Ward

ReceivedReceived8 Jan
ValidatedValidated9 Jan
Consult.Consultation11 Feb
TargetTarget Date5 Mar
DecidedDecided18 Feb

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Tarn Hows Car Park, Ambleside, LA21 8DP. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Lake District's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 92 applications across Coniston and Hawkshead Ward. We hold 312 applications in total for the LA21 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: LA21 8DP
Application type: Full Planning application
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Coniston
District: South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated: 9 January 2026
Consultation expiry: 11 February 2026
Consultation end: 11 February 2026
Target decision date: 5 March 2026
Application expires: 18 March 2026
Permission expires: 17 February 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period: 68 days

Publicity

First advertised: 29 January 2026
Site notice start: 26 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14499549
UPRN: MAN000000000009739
Documents: 12

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
National park: Lake District
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

Source: Lake District

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