Silecroft Beach Car Park, Silecroft, Millom, LA18 4NX Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 7/2024/4080 - Full Planning application

Council

Lake District

Date received

9 Sept 2025

Date validated

26 Sept 2025

Decision date

17 Dec 2025

Postcode

LA18 4NX

Type

Full Planning application

Description

Create 5 no. overnight parking for campervans & motorhomes along with waste disp Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 13 Oct 2026, 06:33

How this decision compares

Decided in 82 days from validation, 31 days slower than Lake District's median of 51 for full applications. Approved, as 89% of full applications here are.

This one82d

Council51d

UK56d

64%decided within 8 weeks

89%approved

7%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Lake District in the last twelve months, from validation. Lake District decision record →

Site constraints 7

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. A site survey can differ.

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.

Special protection area 78 m away: Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

SSSI 25 m away: Shaw Meadow & Sea Pasture SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

Priority habitat 24 m away: Lowland heathland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 14 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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