Eastward Farm, Bampton, Penrith, CA10 2RJ Data via plota.co.uk

7/2026/3049 - Full Planning application Approved

Proposal

Proposed change of use to a flexible use as a dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) or holiday letting accommodation Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:57

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Application progress

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Received

30 Apr 2026

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Validated

6 May 2026

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Consultation

20 May 2026

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Approved

6 Aug 2026

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Committee

2 Sept 2026

Approved on 6 Aug 2026 · Committee · Last checked 6 Aug 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Lake District Development Control Committee on 2 Sept 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the benefits of restoring and maintaining the Grade II* building outweighed the loss of a dwelling.
The parish council objected over highway safety and the proposed increase in traffic; Historic England had no comments.
Members unanimously approved the application with conditions, adding that holiday accommodation must operate as a single unit.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Lake District's committee minutes of 2 Sept 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 19

Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsRisk of Flooding from Surface WaterPrevious planning applicationsListed buildingMineral Safeguarding AreaNutrient Neutrality CatchmentGrade II*Policy 01 Support - National and international significance of the Lake DistrictPolicy 02 Support - Spatial strategeyPolicy 07 Support - Historic environmentPolicy 15 Support - HousingPolicy 18 Support - Sustainable tourism and holiday accommodation

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Eden 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.

Historic England ↗

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Water Supply and WasteCouncil record