Tilberthwaite Farm, Tilberthwaite, Coniston, LA21 8DG Data via plota.co.uk

7/2026/5548 - Advertisement Consent Application Application being considered

Proposal

New interpretation sign informing visitors about the Woodland Pasture Restoration Project and to support the safe and sustainable enjoyment of this popular upland landscape Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

24 Sept 2026

✓

Validated

16 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 8 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 5 Dec 2026, from Lake District's recent advertisement consent.

Documents

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Site constraints 12

Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsCrow Access LandBroadleaved woodland zoneSection 3 moorland mapMineral Safeguarding Area

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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Open access land

Open country or registered common land, with a right to roam on foot.

Building on registered common land needs the consent of the Secretary of State as well as planning permission.

Priority habitat: Upland flushes fens and swamps

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

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: Upland flushes fens and swamps

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

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