Ormathwaite Farm, Underskiddaw, Keswick, CA12 4PQ Data via plota.co.uk

7/2026/2047 - Full Planning application Approved

Proposal

Change of use of barn to dwelling for flexible occupation as an agricultural workers' dwelling or holiday let Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

10 Apr 2026

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Validated

15 Apr 2026

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Consultation

1 May 2026

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Approved

13 Aug 2026

Approved on 13 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 13 Aug 2026

Documents

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Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsRisk of Flooding from Surface WaterPrevious planning applicationsNutrient Neutrality CatchmentGrade IIPolicy 01 Support - National and international significance of the Lake DistrictPolicy 02 Support - Spatial strategeyPolicy 05 Support - Protecting the spectacular landscapePolicy 04 Support - Biodiversity and geodiversityPolicy 06 Support - Design and developmentPolicy 07 Support - Historic environmentPolicy 15 Support - HousingPolicy 19 Support - Agricultural and land-based rural business diversificationPolicy 20 Support - Renewal and low carb on energy

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Derwent & Bassenthwaite Lake SAC

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Lake District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

World heritage site: The English Lake District

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

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Public footpath 8 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

3 listed buildings within 150 m

Nearest: Ormathwaite Hall Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns, Grade II, 24 m away · 3 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 3 with distances

24 mOrmathwaite Hall Farmhouse and Adjoining BarnsGrade II
61 mWorkshop and Flat South East of Ormathwaite HallGrade II
91 mOrmathwaite HallGrade II

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Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Water Supply and WasteCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Ormathwaite Farm, Underskiddaw, Keswick, CA12 4PQ Data via plota.co.uk

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