Levens Farm, Staveley in Cartmel, Ulverston, LA12 8NH Data via plota.co.uk

7/2025/5708 - Full Planning application Refused

Proposal

Construction of 3 buildings for agricultural storage and maintenance, plus surrounding compound fence, plus a trailer store for ancillary agricultural trailers, for land maintenance, with an earth bunding surround (Part Retrospective) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:16

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Application progress

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Received

9 Jan 2026

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Validated

20 Jan 2026

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Consultation

6 Feb 2026

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Refused

2 Apr 2026

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Committee

6 May 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 2 Apr 2026 · Committee · Last checked 25 Jul 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Lake District Development Control Committee on 6 May 2026.

Refused

As officers recommended.

Officers advised refusal because the buildings were not necessary for agriculture and would harm the landscape, visual amenity and cultural heritage.
The parish council objected, while the highway and flood authorities raised no objections.
The committee voted six to one, with two abstentions, and refused the application.

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

Source: Plota analysis of Lake District's committee minutes of 6 May 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 15

Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsRisk of Flooding from Surface WaterPrevious planning applicationsPlanning enquiryPolicy 01 Contrary - National and international significance of the Lake DistricPolicy 02 Contrary - Spatial strategyPolicy 05 Contrary - Protecting the spectacular landscapePolicy 06 Contrary - Design and developmentPolicy 07 Contrary - 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 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 4. 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: Restorable Habitat

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

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