Allocations of Land DPD - Lake District National Park

Allocations of Land 

DPD 

Issues and Options 

Consultation 

April 2010 

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We are not promoting any of 

the sites within this Issues and 

Options Paper. All sites are for 

discussion only at this stage. 

This document is seeking your 

views on whether any of the sites 

are appropriate in principle for 

either development or as open 

space. 

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Contents 

Page 

Disclaimer 3 

Contents 5 

1. Introduction 7 

The Lake District National Park Local Development Framework 7 

Allocations of Land Development Plan Document 7 

Additional sites 8 

What happens next? 8 

Why have we filtered out unsuitable sites at this stage? 8 

2. Evidence of need 13 

Housing Need 13 

Employment Need 16 

Waste management facilities 20 

Open spaces and recreation 21 

Minerals safeguarding areas 23 

3. Have your say 27 

Where can I find out more 27 

Response form A (comment on sites) 39 

Response form B (new site suggestions) 42 

Table list 

Table 1: Assessment table 12 

Table 2: Evidence of housing need in the Lake District National Park 13 

Table 3: Proportion of development by distinctive area 16 

Table 4: Land requirement for housing by distinctive area 16 

Table 5: Summary of table 6.6 from Employment Sites and Premises Study 18 

Table 6: Employment land completions by settlement type 19 

Table 7: Proportion of employment land required in each distinctive area 20 

Table 8: Identified gaps in open space provision 22 

Table 9: Active Sites 24 

Table 10: Dormant Sites 25 

Appendices 

Appendix A – List of sites removed 28 

Appendix B – List of Settlements 36 

Appendix C – List of Housing Need Surveys (August 2009) 37 

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1. Introduction 

The Lake District National Park Local Development Framework 

1.1 The Lake District National Park Authority is preparing its Local Development 

Framework (LDF). The first document to be produced is the Core Strategy. This 

explains how we will deliver the Vision for the National Park, both strategically 

and spatially. The Core Strategy contains the core policies that will guide 

development in the National Park. 

1.2 We submitted our Core Strategy to the Planning Inspector for examination on 

14 January 2010. A number of hearing sessions take place in May 2010, and 

we anticipate that we will adopt it in autumn 2010. 

1.3 We are also preparing two further Development Plan Documents (DPDs). 

These are the General Development Policies DPD and the Allocations of Land 

DPD. 

Allocations of Land Development Plan Document 

1.4 The Allocations of Land DPD will deliver the Core Strategy by identifying sites 

that may be suitable to deliver local affordable housing and employment 

development or that need to be protected for open space and recreational 

uses. The DPD will also identify Minerals Safeguarding Areas. We can protect 

these areas against inappropriate development, which might prevent future 

extraction of slate, local building stone or high purity limestone from existing or 

historic mineral sites. 

1.5 When we adopt the DPD, the Proposals Map will show the allocated sites. 

1.6 In November/December 2009, we carried out a six week Call for Sites 

Consultation. We invited members of the public, Parish Councils, stakeholders, 

landowners, commercial property and planning agents, as well as our 

Development Management Team, to suggest potential sites. 

1.7 In addition to the Call for Sites Consultation, we have also considered sites 

suggested in previous studies: 

LDNP Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (2007) 

LDNP Employment Sites and Premises Study (2007) 

LDNP Employment Sites Programme (2008) 

LDNP Open Space Study (2009) 

1.8 We have undertaken an initial exercise to sift out those sites we consider 

fundamentally unsuitable for allocation. We explain the criteria used to filter 

these sites in Table 1. We have removed 150 sites, and we list them in 

Appendix A. 

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1.9 The remaining sites relate to specific settlements. We list these settlements in 

Appendix B. 

1.10 We want your views on these sites, to help us assess whether they are suitable 

and appropriate. We are also assessing the sites against a Sustainability 

Appraisal. 

Additional sites 

1.11 You may wish to suggest other sites which we are not currently considering. 

This is your opportunity to do so. If you have a suggestion, please complete 

Response Form B, which is at the back of this report. 

1.12 Suggestions may include: 

sites that are already developed but that could be redeveloped at a higher 

density; 

sites where a change of use may be appropriate; and 

redundant buildings that could be reused for previous or new uses; 

new sites that are not yet developed; and 

important green spaces, amenity spaces or recreation areas. 

1.13 We will use the filtering process described in Table 1 for all new sites 

suggested. We will also assess all new sites with a Sustainability Appraisal. We 

will put details relating to new sites on our website for your comment: 

www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf/allocations. 

What happens next? 

1.14 Details of any new site suggestions resulting from this consultation will 

available on our website for your comment 

(www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf/allocations). These sites are expected to be 

available for viewing in June/July 2010 

1.15 The next stage in the preparation of this DPD is the ‘Preferred Options’ report, 

which we expect to publish in late 2010. It will explain the reasoning behind our 

preferred sites, and the reasons for rejecting others. A Sustainability Appraisal 

will accompany the Preferred Options report. 

1.16 We will take all responses to this Issues and Options Consultation into account 

when we consider our preferred sites for housing, employment, open space, 

waste management, and mineral safeguarding areas. We will also consider the 

recommendations from the Sustainability Appraisal. 

1.17 We will undertake detailed site assessments of each site, and also contact 

landowners. 

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Why have we filtered out unsuitable sites at this stage? 

1.18 As a result of the previous studies (listed in paragraph 1.7) and the Call for 

Sites Consultation, we collected approximately 1000 individual site 

suggestions. We carried out a filtering exercise to remove any sites from the 

process that are unsuitable for allocation, to make this consultation exercise 

more effective. 

1.19 We developed filtering criteria to sift out unsuitable sites for potential housing 

and employment allocations. The filtering criteria do not apply to suggestions 

for potential allocations for open space, as the evidence from the Open Spaces 

Study and Core Strategy Policy CS21: ‘Open space and recreation’ states we 

should seek to maintain existing provision of open space sites. The criteria 

used is outlined as follows: 

Criterion 1: Is the site outside or poorly related to a rural service centre or for 

housing sites a village? 

1.20 Our spatial development strategy, described in the Core Strategy, seeks to 

ensure at least 50 percent of development takes place within our rural service 

centres, with 20 percent of development expected in our villages. Policy CS03 

also describes criteria that development should satisfy, including “be within or 

relate well to the form of the settlement, to existing buildings within the 

settlement, and to utility and community infrastructure”. This is therefore the 

justification for removing sites for allocation that do not fit with policy CS03 

requirements. 

1.21 At this preliminary stage, we have considered whether a site is well related or 

not to a rural service centre or village by doing a map based assessment of 

whether the site is in close proximity. We have adopted a precautionary 

principle approach. This means that if it was a marginal decision, as to whether 

the site was well related or not, then we have not removed the site based on 

this criterion. 

Criterion 2: Does the site lie within a functional flood plain (flood zone 3b)? 

1.22 Planning Policy Statement 25: Development and Flood Risk (PPS25) supports 

a sequential approach for making planning decisions. This requires us to seek 

to allocate sites for future development within areas of lowest flood risk. Flood 

zone areas 3b (functional flood plains) are classed as areas with high 

probability of flooding (1 in 20 or greater annual probability of flooding in any 

given year). These areas are subject to relatively frequent flooding, and are the 

least suitable for consideration as allocations for development of employment 

or housing. We have therefore removed any potential employment or housing 

sites that are in flood zone 3b areas from the allocation process. 

Criterion 3: For housing sites only is the site located within an area of high 

flood risk (flood zone 3a)? 

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1.23 Flood zones 3a are defined as being 1 in 100 or greater annual probability of 

river flooding in any year, or in developed areas within the 1 in 20 year outline. 

They are areas of high flood risk, and we should avoid residential development 

in these areas wherever possible. We have removed sites that are identified as 

having potential for residential development only and that are within a flood 

zone 3a from the allocations process. Potential employment sites are a less 

vulnerable use than residential, so we have not removed potential employment 

sites if they are within a flood zone 3a. 

1.24 PPS25 provides an exception test, so that we have a strong planning-based 

argument for a development to proceed that does not meet the requirements of 

the sequential test, we must demonstrate that the development can satisfy the 

exception test. This means we can consider potential housing sites, if it 

becomes apparent later in the allocations process that there are insufficient 

sites available to meet the housing needs for allocation. 

Criterion 4: Does the site lie within an area of national conservation 

importance excluding National Park status? 

1.25 It is difficult to facilitate development within areas designated for national 

importance, because of the likely impacts on those areas. These areas are 

protected for a reason, therefore it is unlikely that they are suitable for 

residential or employment development and we have removed them from the 

allocations process. The designations include: 

Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) 

RAMSAR sites 

Special areas of Conservation (SACs) 

Scheduled Ancient Monuments (SAMs) 

Ancient Semi Natural Woodland 

Tree Preservation Orders (groups and woodland designations not 

individual tree designations) 

Limestone Pavement Orders 

National Nature Reserves 

Special Protection Areas 

Historic Parks and Gardens 

Criterion 5: Is the site an existing public car park? 

1.26 The Employment Sites Programme identified a number of public car parks as 

potential sites for employment development. Through consultation with the 

landowners, it became evident that none of these sites are available for 

redevelopment to employment uses. Unless a car park is suggested for 

development by the landowner, we have assumed that car parks have been 

assumed are unavailable for future allocation. No LDNPA owned car parks are 

available for development. 

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1.27 Pressure for car parking within the Lake District will continue, therefore use as 

a public car park is one of the criteria for removing sites from the allocation 

process. 

Criterion 6: For housing sites only is the site less than 0.1 hectare? 

1.28 The Core Strategy advocates a development density of 30 dwellings per 

hectare. This equates to 3 dwellings on a site of 0.1Ha. Our Core Strategy 

recognises development will be delivered not just through allocations but also 

through individual development opportunities. We have not allocated sites for 

housing in the past, instead we have relied on ‘windfall’ opportunities to deliver 

housing. 

1.29 We cannot allocate every potential housing site, and we will not try to do this. 

A threshold of 3 or fewer dwellings (that is, less than 0.1Ha) is appropriate to 

deliver through windfall opportunities, as these will most likely be individual 

development opportunities that arise on an ad hoc basis. 

1.30 Evidence suggests that affordable housing schemes of less than 3 dwellings 

are much less viable than larger schemes. Recent applications for affordable 

housing schemes in the National Park tend to be for schemes larger than three 

dwellings. We have therefore set the minimum site size at 0.1Ha for the 

allocations process. We have removed sites that are smaller than 0.1Ha. 

Criterion 7: Is the site part of a domestic curtilage? 

1.31 Previous studies identified a number of domestic curtilage sites as potential 

development sites. Feedback from landowners and advice from South 

Lakeland District Council Planning Policy Team (who are undertaking their site 

allocations DPD) indicate that many of the domestic curtilage sites are not 

available. These often concern or distress the landowner when enquiries are 

made regarding the site’s availability. Therefore, we will only consider domestic 

curtilage sites that are suggested by the landowner as part of the allocations of 

land DPD. 

Criterion 8: Is the site on a mains gas pipeline or within the safeguarding area 

of a pipeline? 

1.32 The Health and Safety Executive offer advice to planning authorities with 

regard to hazardous installations. One such hazardous installation is mains gas 

pipelines. As mains gas pipelines are listed as a planning constraint to potential 

development, we have removed areas of land on or within close proximity to 

mains gas pipelines from the allocations process. 

Criterion 9: Has the site been recently developed? 

1.33 Some sites that were identified in previous studies as potential land for housing 

or employment development have since been developed. Therefore we have 

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emoved any sites that we know that have been developed, as they are 

unavailable for development. 

Table 1: Assessment table 

Filtering of ‘non runners’ 

If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of these criteria then we will remove the site from the 

study, and we will not further consider allocating the site. However, this does not 

imply that a proposal for development on the site would be unacceptable. 

Is the site outside or poorly related to a rural service centre? Or 

For housing sites only: Is the site outside or poorly related to 

a village? 

(excluding minerals sites) 

Does the site lie within a functional flood plain (flood zone 3b)? 

For housing sites only: Is the site located within an area of 

high flood risk (flood zone 3a)? 

If yes, then consider potential for employment or other uses 

before removing from study. 

Does the site lie within an area of national conservation 

importance excluding National Park status? 

(for example, Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), RAMSAR, 

Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), Scheduled Ancient Monument 

(SAM)) 

Is the site an existing public car park? 

(If this site has not been suggested by the landowner through ‘Call for 

Sites’ then will be removed from the assessment as the site is unlikely to 

be available) 

For housing sites only: Is the site area below 0.1Ha? 

(That is, able to accommodate less than 3 dwellings assuming 30 

dwellings per hectare. We will consider sites below 0.1Ha as ‘windfall’ 

sites.) 

Is the site part of a domestic curtilage? 

(we consider sites as unavailable unless the landowner has suggested 

them) 

Is the site on a mains gas pipeline or within the safeguarding 

area? 

Has the site been recently developed? 

Does this site pass the criteria for filtering of non-runners? 

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2 Evidence of need 

2.1 The amount of land which we will allocate for future development is informed by 

evidence of need. This section summarises the evidence we will use to help 

determine the amount, location and nature of land that we will allocate through 

the Allocations of Land Development Plan Document. It contains information 

on: 

Housing 

Employment, and 

Minerals Safeguarding Areas 

Housing Need 

2.2 We want to allocate sites to deliver local affordable housing which will 

contribute towards meeting identified affordable housing need until 2025. Sites 

must meet the policy requirements in the Core Strategy. 

2.3 We have used a variety of evidence sources to assess housing need 

throughout the National Park, and to inform where we should allocate future 

housing sites. We summarise evidence sources in Table 2 below. 

Table 2: Evidence of housing need in the Lake District National Park 

Source Need (if stated) Timeframe/notes 

Northwest of England Plan 

Regional Spatial Strategy 

to 2021 (RSS) 

Provide as a minimum 

1080 dwellings over plan 

period (local need and 

2003 - 2021 

Cumbria and Lake District 

Joint Structure Plan 2001 

– 2016 

Cumbria Gypsy and 

Traveller Accommodation 

Needs Assessment (2008) 

Strategic Housing Market 

Area Assessments 

primarily covering the 

LDNP 

LDNP Strategic Housing 

Land Availability 

Assessment 

LDNP Core Strategy Pre- 

Submission (Sept 2009) – 

amended – 

Parish Level Housing 

Needs Surveys 

local affordable need) 

No figure identified 

0 pitches 2007-2012 

2061 2006 -2011 

No of dwellings assumed Plan period 

– 839 (local need and 

local affordable need) 

900 dwellings - minimum 2010-2025 

housing provision target 

(local need and local 

affordable need) 

906 affordable dwellings August 2009. 

The need will fluctuate as 

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new housing approvals are 

granted and developed 

and households find their 

own solutions. It will also 

evolve when new surveys 

are undertaken 

Regional Spatial Strategy 

2.4 All new housing should meet the National Park requirements as in the 

Northwest of England Plan Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS). RSS Table 7.1 

states that we should provide as a minimum, 1080 dwellings over the RSS plan 

period (2003-2021). This equates to 60 dwellings per year. Housing in the 

National Park must be of a scale and type that is appropriate to the area’s strict 

requirements for meeting the identified local and affordable needs of the 

locality. 

Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessments 

2.5 In 2007 the North West Regional Assembly (4NW) commissioned a Gypsy and 

Traveller Accommodation and Related Services Assessment. It identified the 

need for a minimum of 75 new residential pitches in the Cumbria sub-region 

until 2016. The Cumbria sub-region jointly commissioned a Cumbria Gypsy and 

Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessment in 2008. This study identifies a 

need in Cumbria for 58 extra residential pitches (2007 – 2012), and a further 14 

residential pitches until 2016. Neither study identifies a need for residential 

pitches within the National Park. The Cumbria sub-regional assessment does 

however identify a requirement for 35 transit pitches across the study area. 

Discussions are taking place between the Cumbrian local authorities on how 

we will deliver the transit pitches. 

2.6 Currently there are no targets after 2016, as there is no firm evidence of need 

beyond 2016. The 4NW position is to assume a 3% compound increase. This 

maintains the requirement of no residential pitches in the National Park. 

Strategic Housing Market Area Assessments (SHMAA) 

2.7 SHMAAs have been produced to cover the 20 Housing Market Areas identified 

in the Cumbria Housing Strategy 2006-2011. Based on several relevant 

datasets, they present detailed information on issues such as population 

trends, employment and regeneration demands and aspirations. The SHMAAs 

identify a housing need at the strategic level. Four SHMAAs cover the National 

Park and each identifies housing need. The Central Lakes SHMAA has the 

highest affordable housing need out of these four areas. In comparison, the 

West Lakes SHMAA identifies a much lower figure of affordable housing need. 

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LDNP Core Strategy pre-submission 

2.8 Core Strategy Policy CS02 states we will allocate sites in our rural service 

centres, and in villages where the identified local affordable needs housing 

need is proportionately high. CS02 also requires: 

“The level of development will be proportionate to the size and population of 

the settlement and to the capacity of the settlement to accommodate further 

development.” 

2.9 This policy recognises that settlements vary in terms of their size and function, 

and that they have different capacities for new development. This means that 

we need housing evidence at a more local level than Park wide or District area 

to determine where we should allocate housing sites and at what scale. 

2.10 A minimum of 900 dwellings should be provided over the Core Strategy plan 

period (2010 – 2025). 

Parish level housing needs surveys 

2.11 The RSS recognises “in some circumstances, especially in rural areas, it may 

be necessary to undertake further more detailed local survey work to assess 

particular needs.” Parish level Housing Need Surveys identify housing need at 

the local level for a five-year period. The surveys highlight which parishes are 

experiencing the greatest pressure for local affordable needs. 

2.12 Parish Housing Need Surveys from 2006 onwards identify a need for 951 

affordable dwellings. 45 dwellings have since been completed, leaving a need 

for 906 dwellings. The list of current Housing Need Surveys is in Appendix C. 

2.13 The Housing Need Surveys inform the proportion of development required in 

the rural service centres, and they identify the villages where local affordable 

housing need is proportionately high. 

Suggested requirement of land 

2.14 Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing states that “30 dwellings per hectare 

(dph) should be used as a national indicative minimum to guide policy making 

and decision making, until local density policies are in place”. 

2.15 Our Core Strategy states we will apply the national indicative minimum. This 

means we require a minimum of 30Ha of land to meet our Core Strategy 

housing target. 

District Council Housing Officers 

2.16 District Council Housing Officers were asked if their housing strategies and 

priorities identified a housing need other than affordable housing. South 

Lakeland District Council highlighted ‘supported housing for people with 

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physical disabilities’. They have not indicated what size or number of dwellings 

or units may be required. Eden District Council is undertaking a study to identify 

older people’s needs in Eden. They anticipate that development for older or 

vulnerable people will directed to Key Service Centres in the Eden District, and 

not to settlements in the National Park. This further supports our approach to 

allocate land for housing development solely for the purpose of delivering local 

affordable housing. 

Breakdown of requirement of housing in each distinctive area 

2.17 The Core Strategy distinctive area policies explain the proportion of 

development that we anticipate in each area. Table 3 summarises the 

proportions: 

Table 3: Proportion of development by distinctive area 

Distinctive area Proportion (%) 

East 7 

North 25 

Central and South East 44 

South 14 

West 10 

2.18 Table 4 shows the land requirement for housing in each distinctive area. 

Table 4: Land requirement for housing by distinctive area 

Distinctive area Dwellings Land equivalent (Ha) 

East 63 2.1 

North 225 7.5 

Central and South East 396 13.2 

South 126 4.2 

West 90 3 

TOTAL 900 30 

2.19 The breakdown of land required within the distinctive areas will vary between 

the rural service centres and villages. Factors such as capacity to 

accommodate new development; the level of need identified through the Parish 

Housing Needs Surveys; the proportion of land identified at the issues and 

options consultation; and which sites are supported or not, will influence how 

the housing allocation will be broken down among settlements. 

Employment Need 

2.20 We commissioned an Employment Sites and Premises Study (December 

2007), which examined the anticipated demand for land and premises within 

the National Park until 2021. This study is our primary evidence base that we 

have used to identify the level of need for employment space in the National 

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Park. We used this study to inform the development of the Core Strategy. We 

discuss the findings later in this section. 

2.21 Other sources of evidence that we will help us to determine the need and 

potential locations for employment land are: 

Cumbria and Lake District Joint Structure Plan (2006) 

LDNP Employment Sites Programme (Nov 2008) 

LDNP Core Strategy (Sept 2009) 

Northwest Of England Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) (Sept 2008) 

LDNP Annual Monitoring Report 2008/09 

LDNP Technical Report 5: Spatial Development Strategy: further work 

(Sept 2009) 

Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) 

2.22 The RSS identified that the employment land needed in Cumbria between 

2005-2021 is 304Ha. The RSS does not breakdown this figure between the 

districts, but RSS notes that there is currently an oversupply of employment 

land in Cumbria. However, the RSS recognises that in the National Park 

employment land is in particularly short supply and subject to competition from 

other uses. We therefore need to ensure that we retain an adequate supply of 

employment sites. 

2.23 Policy W3 of the RSS states that at least 30 percent of sites are available at 

any one time. ‘Available’ is defined as fully serviced and actively marketed, or 

likely to be fully serviced and actively marketed in the next three years. This 

must be taken into account at when determining our preferred sites. 

Cumbria and Lake District Joint Structure Plan, 2001-2016 

2.24 Structure Plan Policy EM13 states that we should make a rolling 3Ha of 

employment land available between 2001-2016. The policy also identifies the 

market sectors of employment land that are expected; they are ‘Local 

employment sites – B1 and B2 use only’. As such employment sites should: 

be under 5Ha; 

be within classes B1 and B2 of the use classes order; 

have good links/proximity to service centres; and 

have adequate transport access. 

2.25 We have identified in the Core Strategy that we will seek to deliver local 

employment sites in line with this definition to support locally generated need 

and demand. 

Employment Sites and Premises Study 

2.26 The Employment Sites and Premises Study suggests that up to 8.6Ha 

employment land could be demanded up to 2021 (equivalent to 39,000 square 

metres floorspace). The study identifies that there is greatest demand for small 

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premises and floorspace for office uses. The employment sites and premises 

study only covered a fourteen year period, therefore we have calculated the 

proportion of land required for the timeframe of the Core Strategy (fifteen years) 

as 9.2Ha. This Allocations of Land DPD will seek to identify and allocate up to 

9.2Ha of employment land if we can find suitable sites. 

2.27 We intend to maintain a five year supply of readily available employment land. 

This equates to 3.1Ha for each five year period up until 2025. It would be 

necessary to identify and allocate at least a supply of available employment 

land for the first five years, but it would not be necessary to allocate the full 

9.2Ha if available and we cannot find suitable sites at this time. 

2.28 Table 6.6 in the Employment Sites and Premises Study breaks down the 

fourteen year potential demand for employment space. We have summarised 

this in the Table 5. 

Table 5: Summary of table 6.6 from Employment Sites and Premises Study. 

B-Use class 

Proportion of land required (Ha) 

Office (B1a &B1b) 4.7 

Factories B1c, B2 & Sui Generis 2.2 

Warehousing (B8) 1.7 

2.29 Table 5 highlights that we should be looking to identify and allocate a significant 

proportion of land for office use. However, we need to make provision flexible, 

as in Planning Policy Statement 4, to ensure that land can respond to demand 

and market changes. 

2.30 One of the recommendations of the Employment Sites and Premises Study 

was that we should seek to protect the largest sites that were assessed in the 

study, irrespective of their overall suitability score, due to their significance in 

terms of scale to future employment numbers. 

Other Sources of information 

2.31 Discussions with local businesses have identified a need for a site of at least 2 

acres for B8 use (preferably about 4 acres) (0.8Ha – 1.6Ha) to meet a specific 

local need. We will take this requirement into account through this Allocations 

of Land DPD. 

2.32 The Retail Study (2009) for the National Park identified that within some 

settlements there is a need for small units for off-site retail storage. We will 

recognise this as a need for B8 space. 

Technical Reports and Annual Monitoring Report 

2.33 Evidence from our Annual Monitoring Reports and Technical Report 5 suggests 

that we need to allocate employment sites in order to deliver sites in 

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accordance with the Core Strategy. It is clear from the table below that the 

proportion of development that has taken place in the open countryside does 

not align with the Core Strategy spatial development principles. This could be 

as a result of the poor take up of allocated sites in our Local Plan. 

Table 6: Employment land completions by settlement type 

Settlement type 

Proportion of employment land 

completed 2003-2008 (Percent) 

Rural service centres 31.7 

Villages 7.1 

Open countryside and cluster 

communities 61.2 

Employment Sites Programme 

2.34 The findings of the Employment Sites and Premises Study suggested that we 

and our partners should “pursue the development of a business park to meet 

the requirements of knowledge based higher value businesses including the 

provision of incubator/managed workspace”. 

2.35 We are pursuing this suggestion through the Employment Sites Programme in 

partnership with Cumbria County Council and Northwest Regional 

Development Agency. The programme seeks to develop three small-scale 

business parks to accommodate this employment space requirement. We 

recognise that a single larger scale proposal would fail to meet the needs of 

many National Park residents, and large such sites are usually more difficult to 

accommodate within the landscape without adverse impact on visual amenity 

or landscape character. A large number of sites have been identified through 

this study. Some of these may be suitable for allocation, therefore we will 

provide details of these sites in the Allocations of Land issues and options 

consultation. 

2.36 The Core Strategy states that we will only allocate sites within or well related to 

our rural service centres or if sites are specifically identified in distinctive area 

policies CS04-CS09. This will enable use to deliver our spatial development 

objectives. 

2.37 The proportion of employment land we aim to deliver within each distinctive 

area, as identified within the Core Strategy, means we will seek to allocate the 

following amounts of land: 

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Table 7: Proportion of employment land required in each distinctive area 

Distinctive area 

Proportions of 

development 

within distinctive 

area (percent) 

Breakdown of 

land required of 

9.2 Ha 

requirement (Ha) 

Breakdown for 

five year supply 

(3.1Ha) (in Ha) 

East 7 0.65 0.2 

North 25 2.30 0.8 

Central and South 44 4.05 1.4 

East 

South 14 1.25 0.4 

West 10 0.95 0.3 

2.38 We are only identifying the proportion of employment land expected within 

distinctive areas, rather than the relevant rural service centres for that 

distinctive area. Some settlements have greater capacity than others to 

accommodate development and we only want to allocate suitable employment 

sites. Likewise, demand for employment land will vary between settlements, so 

we cannot simply split the expected proportion of land equally between rural 

service centres within each distinctive area. For example, we expect Keswick to 

have a much greater demand for employment land than Caldbeck because 

Keswick has a much larger population. Keswick is a much larger settlement in 

area than Caldbeck and should be able to provide more space for employment. 

Waste management facilities 

2.39 Waste management makes an important contribution to delivering sustainable 

communities. The Core Strategy outlines that there is currently only one 

household waste recycling centre (HWRC) in the National Park, in Ambleside. 

To support sustainable waste management this HWRC needs to be extended. 

Cumbria County Council informed us during the infrastructure requirements 

study (LDNP Technical Report 6: Infrastructure Requirements) that an 

additional HWRC facility is needed in the northern part of the National Park. 

Our Core Strategy says we will seek to allocate sites in Ambleside and 

Keswick. 

2.40 HWRC’s are a Sui Generis use in the Use Classes Order rather than an 

employment use (for example, General Industry, B2 use). We will consider the 

potential employment sites in Ambleside and Keswick in more detail following 

the Issues and Options Consultation, to determine whether any of these sites 

are potentially suitable for a waste management facility. 

2.41 Cumbria County Council is seeking to allocate Kendal Fell Quarry as a site for 

a waste management and treatment facility. Likewise our Core Strategy also 

states our intention to seek to allocate that part of the site that is within the 

National Park boundary. We have identified it in the allocations process as a 

site for waste management facilities. 

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Open space and recreation 

2.42 Open spaces are a valuable resource for residents and visitors across the 

National Park. They include a range of amenity and recreational areas, such 

as: 

children’s play areas 

provision for children 

playing pitches 

informal and equipped recreation areas 

parks and gardens 

amenity greenspace 

rights of way 

village greens 

civic spaces 

allotments 

2.43 Our Core Strategy policy on open space and recreation (CS21) states that we 

want to meet community needs for open spaces, sport sand recreation 

facilities. It explains that we will prevent loss of open spaces by allocating sites 

as Important Open Space in the Allocations DPD. 

2.44 Core Strategy policy 21 states “We will protect existing open spaces and 

recreation facilities. We will only allow development on sites in exceptional 

circumstances, where: 

there is no evidence of local community need for the open space or 

facility, or 

the loss of the open space or recreation facility is replaced by an 

equivalent site, or one of better quality and quantity, and in a suitable 

location that is at least as accessible to current and potential new 

users.” 

2.45 The policy protects existing open spaces, and enables us to provide new sites 

where there is a local community need. However, the policy recognises that 

there is development pressure on some open space sites. The policy provides 

a mechanism to enable, in exceptional circumstances, development to take 

place if an open space is replaced by an equivalent site or if one of better 

quality and quantity is provided. 

2.46 The LDNP Open Space Assessment Report considers the main issues and 

needs for open space, sport and recreation in the Lake District National Park. It 

meets the requirements of national Planning Policy Guidance 17, which is in 

place to ensure that adequate resources are allocated for sport, informal 

recreation and amenity. 

2.47 The LDNP Open Space Assessment Report is the key source of evidence for 

allocating open spaces in the National Park. To develop this report, we used an 

extensive range of other sources of evidence and background information 

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when we assessed key issues. We used parish plans and community plans to 

help identify existing open space sites, along with data from other Local 

Authorities, the Lake District National Park Local Plan and other organisations’ 

plans and strategies. We also wrote to parish councils to confirm open space 

sites in their communities. 

2.48 As well as incorporating an audit of open spaces in the National Park, the Open 

Space Assessment Report identifies local need for different types of amenity 

and recreational open space. We assessed local need using parish and 

community plans, a parish council questionnaire, and meetings or telephone 

interviews with community groups, sports clubs, local authorities and agencies 

working in and around the National Park. 

2.49 The Study assesses open space provision in each of the five distinctive areas 

in the National Park, based on all sites in the audit. It gives a more local 

examination of surpluses and deficiencies. This meant that we could also take 

local circumstances and issues into account. 

2.50 The accessibility analysis, which also took into account gaps in provision that 

people told us about during the study, enables us to identify actual deficient 

areas. These are: 

Table 8: Identified gaps in open space provision 

Type of provision 

Public parks 

Natural and semi-natural 

greenspaces 

Amenity open space 

Broughton-in-Furness 

Play areas 

Allotments 

Civic open space 

Settlements with deficiencies 

A minor gap in provision in Bootle 

We didn’t set an accessibility standard 

Deficiencies identified in Keswick, Gosforth, 

Bootle 

Hawkshead, Grasmere and Staveley 

A number of villages do not have children’s 

play areas 

There was little demand identified for 

provision of additional sites for allotments. 

However, there are a few areas where the 

Open Space Study identified demand – 

Keswick, Ambleside, Haverthwaite and 

Above Derwent. 

There are deficiencies in Gosforth, 

Hawkshead, Grasmere, Ambleside, 

Staveley, Glenridding & Patterdale, 

Keswick and Caldbeck. 

2.51 Since completion of the study, we are now aware of demand for allotment sites 

in Windermere, Ambleside and Staveley. 

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2.52 Apart from the deficiencies listed above, National Park settlements have a 

sufficient level of open space provision, both generally and for specific types of 

open space. Consultation during preparation of the Open Space Study showed 

that open spaces are a valuable resource for residents and visitors across the 

National Park, and that people’s perception is that they are well provided for. 

The countryside is a vital recreational resource, as well as providing an identity 

and visual amenity to National Park settlements. 

2.53 Residents consider that there is a lack of play areas and informal recreation 

areas for playing ball games, particularly in the smaller and more rural 

settlements. Despite this perceived lack of provision, there is little demand for 

greater provision to be made. In the main, residents are content with the 

quantity of open space available to them because they are surrounded by open 

countryside. People’s rural lifestyles influence their needs and expectations. 

Children that live in rural areas have different play experiences and needs 

compared with children in urban areas. 

2.54 The large areas of open countryside, together with the areas of amenity 

greenspace in settlements are often enough to meet residents’ needs and both 

help to create a strong village character. For example, consultation identified 

that there is little formal open space in Troutbeck. However, there is no 

evidence to suggest need or demand for greater provision. The children’s play 

area is sufficient for children in the village, and residents travel to Ambleside to 

access more formal open space and sport. 

2.55 The Open Space Study indicates that local people value the opportunities 

offered by formal open space provision, and are keen to ensure that these sites 

are protected. Some residents are aware development pressures, and fear 

losing open spaces as a result. 

2.56 In order to ensure that we retain sufficient open spaces in settlements, and to 

address deficiencies where we can, we want to allocate all existing open space 

sites and some additional sites that were identified through the audit for the 

Open Space Study. The Core Strategy policy CS21 on open spaces will then 

protect any sites allocated. 

Mineral Safeguarding Areas 

2.57 We are the Minerals Planning Authority for the National Park. We currently 

have nine active building stone and slate quarries, and two active and two 

inactive crushed rock quarries. There are two key sources of evidence of need 

for minerals safeguarding areas. These are: 

Mineral Policy Statement 1 (Nov 2006) 

LDNP Core Strategy (Sept 2009) 

2.58 Mineral Policy Statement 1 requires us to define Minerals Safeguarding Areas 

(MSAs) to ensure that minerals resources are not sterilised by non-mineral 

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development. There is no presumption that these areas defined as MSAs will 

be worked in future or that they will necessarily be environmentally acceptable 

for mineral extraction. MSAs ensure that we fully consider mineral resources in 

land use and spatial planning decisions. 

2.59 Core Strategy Policy CS29 states the requirements for mineral extraction. It 

includes the criterion that we will only permit mineral extraction in the National 

Park where it is for the extension of an existing site or the re-opening of an old 

site. The Core Strategy explains that we will not be supporting any new sites for 

mineral extraction. The active aggregates quarries have valid permissions up to 

2042, so we do not anticipate a shortfall in supply during the Core Strategy 

period. Many of the active slate quarries also have valid permissions up to 

2042. 

2.60 We will consider safeguarding areas for quarries listed in Table 9. 

Table 9: Active Sites 

MSA 

reference Site Name 

Commodity 

Expiry of 

existing 

permission 

MSA 1 Brathay Quarry Slate 21-Feb-42 

MSA 2 Broughton Moor Quarry Slate 21-Feb-42 

MSA 3 Bursting Stone Quarry Slate 31-Dec-30 

MSA 4 Elterwater Quarry Slate 21-Feb-42 

High Fell Quarry (High 

MSA 5 Fellside) Slate 31-Mar-24 

MSA 6 Honister Slate Mine Slate 22-Feb-42 

Hodge Close Quarry 

MSA 7 (Peatfield) Slate 30-Nov-11 

MSA 8 Low Brandy Crag Quarry Slate 31-Oct-18 

MSA 9 Petts Quarry Slate 31-Dec-15 

MSA 10 Shap (Blue) Quarry 

Igneous & 

Metamorphic Rock 

(Granite) 

MSA 12 Shap Beck Quarry Limestone 21-Feb-42 

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Table 10: Dormant Sites 

MSA reference Site Name Commodity 

Igneous & Metamorphic 

MSA11 

Shap Pink 

Rock (Granite) 

MSA 13 Kendal Fell Limestone 

MSA 14 Sprout Crag, Gt Langdale Slate 

MSA 15 Moss Rigg Slate 

MSA 16 Whitbarrow Limestone 

MSA 17 Clints, Bothel Limestone 


MSA 18 

Threlkeld 

Rock 

MSA 19 Flusco Lodge Limestone 

MSA 20 Yewbarrow, Witherslack Limestone 

MSA 21 Steel Rigg, Kentmere Slate 

MSA 22 

MSA 23 

High Newton 

Klondyke, Hodge Close, 

Tiberthwaite 

Limestone or igneous & 

metamorphic rock 

Slate 

MSA 24 High Fell End, Witherslack Limestone 

MSA 25 

Broad Oak, Waberthwaite 


Rock 

MSA 26 

Bram Crag, Threlkeld, St Johns 


Rock 

MSA 27 

Embleton 


Rock 


MSA 28 

Beckfoot, Eskdale 

Rock 

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3 Have your say 

3.1 If you wish to make comments on any of the sites shown in this document, 

please complete the online response form on our website at 

www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf/allocations. 

3.2 Alternatively, please complete a response form at the back of this report and 

send to: 


Spatial Planning and Communities 

Lake District National Park Authority 

Murley Moss 

Oxenholme Road 

Kendal 

LA9 7RL 

3.3 If you wish to make a suggestion for a site or sites not included in the report, 

please complete Response Form B at the back of this report, and return this to 

us at the address above. The deadline for all responses is 4pm, Tuesday 1 

June 2010. 

Where can I find out more? 

3.4 You can find further information about the Lake District National Park Local 

Development Framework on our website at www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf. 

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Appendix A – List of excluded sites 

 

 

 

 

 

North Distinctive Area 

East Distinctive Area 

West Distinctive Area 

Central and South East Distinctive Area 

South Distinctive Area 

Maps of the excluded sites are provided as a separate section of this consultation, 

so please refer to them for identification of sites. 

North distinctive area 

Reference 

No 

Map 

No Site name Settlement Reason for removing 

X1056 1 Car park, Caldbeck Caldbeck Public car park 

X163 1 

Land opposite Ratten 

Row Gate Caldbeck Domestic curtilage 

X419 2 Moota Hotel 

Nr 

Cockermouth 

Not well related to a rural 

service centre or village 

X091 3 

The Pinfold, junction of 

North Row and A591 Bassenthwaite 



X1006 4 Depot at Embleton Embleton Recently redeveloped 

X1007 4 Beck Bank Farm Embleton 


service centre or village and 

high flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X143 4 Land at Wythop Mill Embleton 



X088 5 

Agricultural buildings at 

Meadow Bank, High Lorton Lorton Below 0.1 hectares 

X094 6 Land at Jenkin Hill Thornthwaite 



X095 6 

Land at former Ladstock 

Hotel 

Thornthwaite 



X100 7 

Land in front of Ashcroft 

Terrace Braithwaite High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X1237 7 Land at Campsite Braithwaite High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X1206 8 Crosthwaite to A66 Keswick High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X092 9 

X1028 9 

Land at Applethwaite Farm, 

Applethwaite 

Land off roundabout, 

adjacent A591 

Applethwaite 

Keswick 



Landowner indicated not 

available for development 

X1029 10 

Land to east of St 

Kentigerns Close Keswick High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X1030 10 Ravensfield Care Home Keswick 

High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

and landowner indicated site 

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X1031 10 

X1032 10 

X1034 10 

unavailable for development 

Goatfield and surrounding 

land Keswick Domestic curtilage 

Car Park and land adjacent 


Rawnsley Centre 

Keswick available for development 

Bell Close and Otley Road 

car parks Keswick Public car park 

X1035 10 Heads Road car park Keswick Public car park 

X1054 10 Greta Court Keswick Domestic curtilage 

X1055 10 1-20 Derwent Close Keswick Domestic curtilage 

X1070 10 

Land to the west of La'al 

Field Keswick High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X1071 10 

Coach Park to rear of 

supermarket 

Keswick 

High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

and public car park 

X1204 10 

SE of roundabout 

(Crosthwaite) 

Keswick 

Gas pipeline and safeguarding 

area 

Domestic curtilage and high 

flood risk area 

X1223 10 High Hill Industrial Keswick 

Land at 61 The Headlands, 

X193 10 Keswick Keswick Below 0.1 hectares 

Adjacent Castlehead 

X1181 10 Medical Centre Keswick Domestic curtilage 

Tree preservation order group 

and recently redeveloped 

(extension) 

X045 11 

Land at Nether Place, 

Chestnut Hill 

Keswick 

X1039 11 Garage on Penrith Road Keswick Recently redeveloped 

Royal mail sorting office and 


X1047 11 BT exchange 

Keswick available for development 

X1049 11 Travis Perkins Keswick Recently redeveloped 

X1052 11 Car Park near Keswick Spa Keswick Public car park 

X175 11 Land east of Forge Mill Keswick 

Domestic curtilage and below 

0.1 hectares 

X422 12 Storms Farm Keswick 



X098 13 

The Thwaite Mewbuyys, 

adjacent to A66 behind 

Salutation Inn Threlkeld Below 0.1 hectares 

X1023 13 

Land adjacent No 1 Town 

Cross Threlkeld Recently redeveloped 

X105 13 Land to west of woodend Threlkeld 



X205 13 Adjacent Sunnybank Threlkeld Below 0.1 hectares 

X209 13 

X211 13 

Opposite Horse and Farrier 

Inn Threlkeld Below 0.1 hectares 

Car park adjacent Salutation 

Inn Threlkeld Below 0.1 hectares 

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X1025 14 LDNPA Depot Threlkeld 


service centre or village and 

high flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X1026 14 Spoil Heap Threlkeld 



X1027 14 

Land adjacent Stable 

Cottages Threlkeld Recently redeveloped 

X1068 14 Land at the Quarry Threlkeld 



East distinctive area 

Reference 

No 

Map 


X461 15 Former auction mart 

Troutbeck 

(Keswick) 

Nr 

Penruddock 





X467 16 Building at Stoddahgate 

Land between Mardale and 

X119 17 Ashdown Penruddock Below 0.1 hectares 

X460 17 Land opposite Smithy Garth Penruddock Below 0.1 hectares 

X121 18 Land at Kirkgate Watermillock 



X1009 19 

Land adjacent to (east of) 

the Sun Hotel Pooley Bridge Below 0.1 hectares 

X1062 19 Buildings at Eusmere Pooley Bridge 



X1013 20 Land to rear of Holly House Askham Below 0.1 hectares 

X1084 20 Swimming Pool Askham 

Swimming pools not included 

as open space in this DPD 

X188 21 Greenside Road Glenridding Below 0.1 hectares 

X189 21 Eagle Farm Glenridding Below 0.1 hectares 

X190 21 Land at Cherry Holme Glenridding Below 0.1 hectares 

X182 22 Land next to Church Corner Patterdale 

Domestic curtilage and below 

0.1 hectares 

X183 22 Next to School House Patterdale Below 0.1 hectares 

X184 22 Land next to Green Rigg Patterdale Below 0.1 hectares 

X185 22 Garden within Greywalls Patterdale Domestic curtilage 

X145 23 

Swindale Water Treatment 

Works 

Swindale 



West distinctive area 

Reference 

No 

Map 


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X226 38 Milkinstead, Eskdale Eskdale Green 

X1001 39 

X1002 39 

X120 40 

X113 41 

X137 42 

Land adjacent Mere 

beck 

Field to the west of 

Rockwood 

Fields south of Road 

Junction 

Row Farm and Row 

Eskdale Green 

Eskdale Green 

Santon Bridge 

Not well related to a rural service 

centre or village 




centre or village and high flood 

risk area (zone 3a) 



Mill Gosforth High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

Walls Drive near 

caravan site and 

Located within Historic Park and 

playing field 

Ravenglass Garden designation 

X439 43 Hycemoor Way Bootle Station 

X444 43 

X446 43 

X443 44 

X445 44 

X085 45 

Land between 

Fairview and The 

Ellers 

Bootle Station 




centre or village and below 0.1 

hectares 


Former Nursing 

Home, Woodstock Bootle Station 

centre or village and below 0.1 

hectares 

Barn at Beckside 

Farm Bootle Below 0.1 hectares 

Empty building at 

Millholme Barn Bootle Below 0.1 hectares 

Land adjacent to The 

Nook and Railway 

Platform Silecroft Tree preservation order group 

Central and south east distinctive area 

Reference 

No 

X195 24 

X2059 24 

X2061 24 

X2065 24 

X2232 24 

X131 25 

Map 


Derelict barn/garage, 

Winderseeds 

Grasmere 



Land to rear of Michael's 

Croft Grasmere Domestic curtilage 

Part of grounds of Rothay 

Garden Hotel Grasmere High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

Car Park at rear of 

Memorial Hall Grasmere Public car park 

Forrest Side Cottage, 

Grasmere Grasmere Tree preservation order group 

Land to north of sewage 

works (adjacent White 

Gables) Grasmere High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

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X2067 25 

X2069 25 

Part of grounds of the 

Wordsworth Hotel 

Land to west of garden 

Grasmere 

Tree preservation orders and 

within high flood risk area (zone 

3a) 

centre Grasmere Public car park 

Land adjacent Gold Rill 

Hotel Grasmere High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

X2070 25 

Part of grounds of Bridge 

X2071 25 House Hotel and car park Grasmere High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

Car Park to rear of 

primary school playing 

X2073 25 fields Grasmere Public car park 

Garages and Amenity 

X118 26 land at Lane End Elterwater Below 0.1 hectares 


X141 27 Land behind Lanty Barn Rydal centre or village 

X011 27 

X146 27 

X2039 28 

X2040 28 

Land to east of Overbeck, 

Rydall Road Ambleside Domestic curtilage 

Nook Services Reservoir, 

adjacent Nook End Farm 

Land adjacent to playing 

field 


works 

Land to the north of 5 

Ambleside 

Ambleside 

Ambleside 



Functional flood plain - high flood 

risk (3b) 


risk (3b) 

X2218 28 Ghyllside, Stockghyll Ambleside Domestic curtilage 

Car Park adjacent 

X2038 29 Regent Hotel Ambleside Public car park 

X2096 29 Blue Hill Ambleside Section 3 Woodland designation 

X2085 30 

X2086 30 

X2090 30 

X2091 30 

X110 31 

Barns at High Green 

Farm Troutbeck Below 0.1 hectares 

Land to south of Hogarth 

Cottages Troutbeck Below 0.1 hectares 

Part of former quarry and 

wooded area Troutbeck Below 0.1 hectares 

Site between Skye Villa 

and Larchways Troutbeck Below 0.1 hectares 

Land at Hodge How, Old 

Hall Road 

X2043 31 Land off Keldwith Drive 

Land off Patterdale Road, 

X2044 31 to north of Grange House 

X2117 31 Swimming Pool 

Windermere 

Troutbeck 

Bridge 

Windermere 

Troutbeck 

Bridge 


and Section 3 Woodland 

designation 


Site is being/has been recently 

developed 

Swimming pools not included as 

open space in this DPD 

X2118 31 Swimming Pool Windermere 

Old Hall Road, 

X2234 31 Windermere 

Windermere 





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Old Hall Road, 

Windermere 


centre or village and domestic 

curtilage 

X2235 31 

Windermere 

Garden of Oakland 

X2238 31 Cottage, The Hoo Lane Windermere Domestic curtilage 

Land to north of the 

Ancient semi-natural woodland 

X2050 32 Spinney 

Windermere and Section 3 woodland 

Land south of 

Windermere Steamboat 


X2093 32 Museum 

Windermere available for development 


X2119 32 Swimming Pool Windermere open space in this DPD 

Land side of 6 (Rustlings) 

X2219 32 Annisgarth Dr Windermere Domestic curtilage 

Land at end of Biskey 

X2220 32 Howe Park Windermere Domestic curtilage 

Land off Biskey Howe 

X2221 32 Road Windermere Domestic curtilage 

Land west of 1 Biskey 

X2222 32 Howe Park Windermere Domestic curtilage 

Land east of Crag Brow 

X2224 32 Cottage Windermere Domestic curtilage 

Land west of Queens 

X2226 32 Square Bowness Public car park 

X2236 32 Farley Field, Windermere Windermere Ancient semi-natural woodland 

X426 32 

Former Quarry off 

Rayrigg Road 

Windermere 



X111 33 Land at Glebe Drive Bowness Below 0.1 hectares 

X2081 33 

X2225 33 

X2254 33 

X093 49 

Overspill car park at 

Braithwaite Fold Windermere Public car park 

Land between Pavey Ark 

and Reagill Bowness Domestic curtilage 

Land to south east of 

Burnside Hotel Bowness Domestic curtilage 

Land adjacent Yew Tree 

Farm 

Ayside 



X423 50 Crag Lane Cartmel 



X101 51 

X433 51 

X435 51 

Former Quarry, Back 

O'Th Fell Road Lindale Below 0.1 hectares 

Land surrounding ALNAT 

estate 

Land adjacent to the 

BMW Garage 

Lindale 

Lindale 

Only considered suitable for 

employment, not allocating 

employment sites in Villages 

Only considered suitable for 

employment, not allocating 

employment sites in Villages 

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X2013 52 

X2016 52 

X2017 52 

Land and buildings to 

north of Hawthorn House Witherslack Below 0.1 hectares 

Land and buildings at 

Black Head Farm 

Barn to the north of Black 

Head cottages 

Witherslack 

Witherslack 

High flood risk area (zone 3a) and 

not well related to a rural service 


Below 0.1 hectares and not well 

related to a rural service centre or 

village 

X432 53 Crosthwaite Mill Crosthwaite 



X124 54 

Boundary Park, land to 

south of the existing 

business park 

Nr Kendal 



X2100 54 

Land North of Boundary 

Bank Farm 

Nr Kendal 


centre or village and planning 

permission secured for 

workshops 

X313 55 


Plumgarths 

Nr Kendal 



X421 56 Staveley Mill Yard Staveley Recently redeveloped 

X2084 57 


Cazobel 

Nr Lindale 

Recently redeveloped and not 

well related to a rural service 


South distinctive area 

Reference 

No 

Map 


X429 34 Tower Bank House Near Sawrey 

Barn adjacent Esthwaite 

X318 35 hall 

Hawkshead 


centre or village and recently 

redeveloped 



X2025 36 

Land to south of Black 

beck Lodge Hawkshead Below 0.1 hectares 

X2026 36 

Land to rear of Coach 

Park 

Hawkshead 

Site is being/has been recently 

developed 

X2099 36 Car Park, Hawkshead Hawkshead Public car park 

X2008 37 

X2009 37 

X2101 37 

Land to south of Beck 

Yeat 


Coniston 


risk (3b) 

works Coniston Tree preservation order group 

Land to East of Old 

Furness Road and Car 

Public car park and existing 

Park Opposite 

Coniston workshops 

X2116 37 Swimming Pool Coniston 



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X2228 37 

Land within ownership of 

Sun Hotel Coniston Tree preservation order 

X2230 37 Hall at Yewdale Road Coniston Recently redeveloped 

X194 46 

Land at St Johns the 

Baptist 

Blawith 



Land north of The 

X173 47 

X2089 47 

X168 48 

Orchard Haverthwaite Below 0.1 hectares 

Land at timber 

merchants, adjacent 

Lecks Travel 

Haverthwaite 

Land opposite Forresters 

Walk 

Backbarrow 




below 0.1 hectares 

X424 48 

West side of Backbarrow 

Ironworks 

Backbarrow 

X468 48 Backbarrow Ironworks Backbarrow 

Scheduled Ancient Monument and 

part of ongoing redevelopment 


recently redeveloped (although not 

complete) 

X2019 48 Brewer Field Backbarrow High flood risk area (zone 3a) 

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APPENDIX B – List of Settlements 

Distinctive Area Rural Service Centre Villages 

North Distinctive Area Caldbeck 

Keswick 

Bassenthwaite 

Braithwaite 

Embleton 

High and Low Lorton 

Portinscale 

Rosthwaite and 

Stonethwaite 

Threlkeld 

East Distinctive Area Glenridding/Patterdale Askham 

Bampton 

Penruddock 

Pooley Bridge 

West Distinctive Area 

Central and South East 

Distinctive Area 

South Distinctive Area 

Bootle 

Gosforth 

Grasmere 

Staveley 

Windermere/Bowness 

Backbarrow/Haverthwaite 

Broughton in Furness 

Coniston 

Hawkshead 

Ennerdale Bridge 

Eskdale Green 

Lane End (Waberthwaite) 

Ravenglass 

Silecroft 

Chapel Stile and Elterwater 

Crosthwaite 

Lindale 

Troutbeck and Troutbeck 

Bridge 

Witherslack 

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APPENDIX C – Completed Housing Need Surveys Reports (April 2010) 

Parish Date of Survey Need 

(when 

survey 

published) 

Area of land 

required 

(Ha)* 

Completions 

(since date of 

survey) 

Parish 

Population 

(2001) 

Above Derwent August 2007 33 1.1 12 1207 

Ambleside June 2006 38 1.3 5127 (Lakes 

Parish) 

Askham & Helton January 2006 17 0.6 360 

Bassenthwaite January 2009 6 0.2 412 

Bewaldeth & January 2009 0 0 

Snittlegarth 

Blawith & 

March 2009 6 0.2 189 

Subberthwaite 

Blindbothel January 2009 0 0 1 148 

Blindcrake January 2009 3 0.1 287 

Borrowdale August 2007 10 0.35 438 

Bootle May 2008 13 0.45 745 

Broughton West August 2005 5 0.2 954 

Caldbeck 

November 20 0.7 1 714 

2007 

Claife April 2008 15 0.5 392 

Colton March 2007 17 0.6 1 765 

Coniston March 2006 66 2.2 1 1058 

Crook April 2007 10 0.35 340 

Crosthwaite & November 13 0.45 562 

Lyth 

2008 

Drigg & Carleton January 2009 12 0.4 450 

Embleton January 2009 6 0.2 3 297 

Glenridding September 6 0.2 443 

2005 

Gosforth May 2008 17 0.6 1 1230 

Grasmere October 2006 40 1.35 

Haverthwaite December 13 0.45 2 728 

2005 

Hawkshead June 2008 28 0.95 3 589 

Hutton July 2007 8 0.3 326 

Ireby & Uldale November 5 0.2 428 

2007 

Keswick 

December 169 5.65 6 4984 

2005 

Kirkby Ireleth February 2007 40 1.35 1247 

Lamplugh May 2008 4 0.15 763 

Langdale, 

Elterwater, 

Loughrigg, 

Skelwith Bridge 

and Clappersgate 

November 

2006 

11 0.4 

Lorton June 2006 9 0.3 1 250 

Matterdale October 2008 5 0.2 526 

Millom Without January 2008 18 0.6 1638 

Ponsonby 2009 0 0 92 

Rydal October 2006 2 0.1 

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Setmurphy January 2009 1 0.1 108 

Satterthwaite November 12 0.4 258 

2006 

Staveley with August 2008 18 0.6 1609 

Ings 

Shap 

September 1 in NP 0.1 1221 

2009 

area 

Threlkeld August 2005 9 0.3 450 

Torver March 2006 7 0.25 135 

Underbarrow July 2006 7 0.6 350 

Underskiddaw August 2007 5 0.2 282 

Upper Allithwaite October 2008 8 0.3 824 

Waberthwaite December 10 0.35 274 

2007 

Wasdale 

December 4 0.15 79 

2007 

Whicham October 2007 21 0.7 1 395 

Windermere June 2008 159 5.3 11 8245 

Witherslack incl. July 2005 23 0.8 482 

Meathop & Ulpha 

Wythop January 2009 1 0.1 - 

Total 951 32.2 45 

*As the threshold for allocating sites is 0.1Ha, where there is a housing need of less than three 

dwellings we have rounded this need up to a land requirement of 0.1ha. 

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Response form A 

How to make comments 

 

 

 

 

Response form for comments 

If you have internet access please complete the response form online at 

www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf/allocations 

Otherwise, please complete this form and return it to: Site Allocations, Lake 

District National Park Authority, Murley Moss, Oxenholme Road, Kendal, LA9 

7RL 

Please complete a separate form for each site you wish to comment on. 

For more copies please photocopy this sheet. Or you can download 

additional copies from our website (www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf). Or we can 

send it to you if you request it. Please call 01539 724555 or email 

ldf@lakedistrict.gov.uk 

We must receive your response by 4pm, Tuesday 1 June 2010. 

Once submitted, your comments will be available for others to read. 

Your details 

(You only need to complete the ‘your details’ section once, regardless of how many 

sites you are commenting on.) 

Name: 

Agent (if applicable): 

Address: 

Address: 

Postcode: 

Phone: 

Email: 

Postcode: 

Phone: 

Email: 

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Site details 

You must complete this section separately for each site you wish to comment on. If 

you wish to make comments on a Minerals Safeguarding Area please jump to 

question 5. 

Site reference 

number 

(this field must be completed for your comment to be taken into 

account) 

1. Do you support or object to further consideration of this site for the following 

uses: (please tick all boxes that apply) 

Use Support Object Don’t mind 

Housing 

Employment* 

Open space 

Waste management 

facilities** 

For the purposes of this consultation: 

*Employment means Business/Office use, General Industry, or Storage and Distribution. 

**Waste management facilities would include, for example, Household Waste Recycling 

Centres. 

2. If you have indicated that you support any uses on this site please tell us 

why? 

(continue on a separate sheet if necessary) 

3. If you have indicated that you object to any uses on this site please tell us 

why? 


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4. If you would like to suggest that we consider a site that does not feature in 

this options consultation report please complete the separate site suggestion 

form, and return to us at the address provided. 

Minerals Safeguarding Areas 

5. Do you wish to make any comments on the suggested locations for minerals 

safeguarding areas? 

Yes 

No 

6. If yes please state the site’s reference number and your comments here: 

MSA reference 

Comments 


Thank you for your views. 

Please return this form to: 




Murley Moss 


Kendal 

LA9 7RL 

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Response form B 

How to make comments 

 

 

 

 

 

Site suggestion form 

For us to consider your site suggestion, please use this form. 

Please only submit one site per form. 

Please provide a map so we can identify the site location, with the 

suggested site outlined in red. 

If multiple sites are identified on one map please reference each site to the 

appropriate response form, for example site 1, site 2, site 3. 

For more copies, please photocopy this sheet. Or you can download 

additional copies from our website (www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/ldf). Or we can 

send it to you if you request it, please call 01539 724555 or email 

ldf@lakedistrict.gov.uk 

We must receive your response by 4pm, Tuesday 1 June 2010. 

Once submitted, your comments will be available for others to read. 

Your details 

Name: 

Agent (if applicable): 

Address: 

Address: 

Postcode: 

Phone: 

Email: 

Postcode: 

Phone: 

Email: 

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Proposed sites 

Site details 

Site reference/address: 

Location/description (e.g. 

off New Road, 

Windermere) 

Name of landowner (if 

known) 

Landowner address and 

contact details 

When would the site be 

available 

Existing use (if vacant 

please indicate last use 

and approximate date of 

use) 

Suggested use of site 

Please include O/S plan with a red line showing the 

boundary of the site proposed 

0-5 years 

5-10 years 

10+ years 

Housing 

Employment 

Open Space or recreation 

Waste management facilities 

Other information 

(to support self sufficiency, for example 

Household Waste Recycling Centres) 

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Please continute on separate sheet 

Thank you for your suggestion. 

Please return this form to: 




Murley Moss 


Kendal 

LA9 7RL 

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