Peacock Farm, Ashes Lane, Staveley, Kendal, LA8 9JS Data via plota.co.uk

7/2026/5248 - Notification of Intention (Agricultural, Q6g) Approved

Proposal

Proposed midden and welfare structure extension to existing livestock structure and hardstanding extensions to existing hardstanding Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

15 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 unconditional approval because the extension was reasonably necessary for agriculture and its siting, design and appearance were acceptable.
The parish council and 15 objectors raised concerns about pig waste, environmental effects, business viability, landscape, welfare and land-use intensity.
Members unanimously approved the application unconditionally.

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

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

Documents

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Site constraints 14

Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsPrevious planning applicationsPolicy 01 Support - National and international significance of the Lake DistrictPolicy 02 Support - Spatial strategeyPolicy 03 Support - Development and floodingPolicy 05 Support - Protecting the spectacular landscapePolicy 04 Support - Biodiversity and geodiversityPolicy 06 Support - Design and developmentPolicy 07 Support - Historic environment

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 5. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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 2

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

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