Bootle - Lake District National Park

Bootle
Site reference X112 Site area (Ha) 4.36
Site name
Wellbank Camp
Suggested use at Issues and Mixed Use
Options
Key issues identified at Stage 2 Can issue be potentially overcome/mitigated?
through Issues and Options
consultation
No (give reason)
Further
assessment
required (see
Isolated (unsustainable) site
which will be reliant on private car
use. Improved pedestrian and
cycleway links back towards
Bootle should be secured,
however, unlikely to overcome the
accessibility problems associated
with the location. The access is
not considered to be feasible, and
there are known highway issues.
Concerns over the development
of this site in its totality, due to its
size, location, and resultant
impacts upon the surrounding
countryside. It is noted that the
site contains areas of brownfield
land, and is relatively well
landscaped. Employment use
may be appropriate should
access issues be able to be
resolved. The site is inappropriate
for housing in our view, given its
remoteness.
Yes
Yes
below)
Stage 3
No Yes
Is the site available?
Site characteristics
This site is a former barracks used by the Ministry of Defence but sold by Defence
Estates in 2002. A large part of the site comprises rough grass. A range of brick
buildings and prefabricated buildings occupy part of the eastern side of the site, and
these buildings are now vacant and in a poor state of repair. One building, a
swimming pool used by the community, occupies the north west corner of the site.
The site occupies a fold in the low lying coastal plain and consequently, except when
viewed from the road to the north, it is not prominent in the landscape. Agricultural
land surrounds this site to the north, south, east, and west, although there are
highways along the southern boundary and part of the northern boundary of this site.
The site is located approximately 700 metres from Bootle and 800 metres from
Bootle Station where the Cumbrian Coastal Railway stops.