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St John's Lodge Guest House, Lake Road, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 2EQ

7/2026/5028Full Planning applicationApproved
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Approved on 12 March 2026

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to flexible use as a B & B, a single let building for holiday let and term lets such as multiple tenants on short-hold tenancy agreements

Received
12 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Windermere and Ambleside Ward
  1. Received12 Jan
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target8 Mar
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at St John's Lodge Guest House, Lake Road, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 2EQ. Lake District has handled 3,845 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer 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 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 2EQ
Application type
Full Planning application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Windermere
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2026
Consultation expiry
11 February 2026
Consultation end
11 February 2026
Target decision date
8 March 2026
Application expires
9 April 2026
Permission expires
11 March 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
87 days

Publicity

First advertised
29 January 2026
Site notice start
6 February 2026

Additional information

UPRN
MAN000000000021317
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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