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The Falls, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0QT

T/2025/0145TPO applicationApproved

Approved on 10 October 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1. Mature Beech (furthest East / upstream) Crown Lift branches on the building side up to a height of large previous pruning wound (approx 8m) and the 2 lowest branches on river side at approx. 4m height. T2. Mature Beech. (furthest West / downstream): Crown lift lower branches growing towards buildings up to roof height (approx 12m). Leaving other lower branches on west side of the tree that are growing towards neighbours garden rather than towards properties at The Falls.

Received
11 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Lake District
Ward
Windermere and Ambleside Ward
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Oct
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Falls, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0QT. Lake District has handled 917 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 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 253 applications across Windermere and Ambleside Ward. We hold 1,502 applications in total for the LA22 postcode area.

98% of trees 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 0QT
Application type
TPO application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lakes
District
South Lakeland

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2025
Target decision date
12 October 2025
Application expires
16 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14219121
UPRN
MAN000000000008071
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO-203Part of the site
  • World Heritage Site: The English Lake District
  • National park: Lake District
  • Ancient woodland: Stockghyll Force WoodPart of the site
Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, 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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© 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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