Land adjacent to St Mary's Church, Mill Lane, Crosthwaite Data via plota.co.uk

7/2025/5682 - Major full application Approved

Proposal

The proposal seeks retrospective permission for the change of use of former agricultural land to a community memorial forest, together with associated access improvements Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

20 Feb 2026

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Validated

3 Mar 2026

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Consultation

11 Mar 2026

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Approved

3 Jul 2026

Approved on 3 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 26 Jul 2026

Documents

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Associated applications 2

FullApproved3 Jul 20267/2025/5682This application
The proposal seeks retrospective permission for the change of use of former agricultural land to a community memorial forest…
- ConditionsApproval of details reserved by the Biodiversity Net Gain Condition on planning28 Jul 20267/2026/5399

Site constraints 20

Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsRisk of Flooding from Surface WaterPrevious planning applicationsRisk of Flooding from Rivers and SeaEnforcement noticesSites and monuments record (SMR)Policy 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 ↗

Priority habitat: No main habitat but additional habitats present

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

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: 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