Land at South Barn, Ayside, Grange Over Sands, LA11 6HY Data via plota.co.uk

7/2026/5040 Approved

Proposal

The making of a material change of use from agriculture to a mixed use of agriculture, commercial timber processing, the fabrication of timber buildings and furniture and the storage of timber, vehicles and domestic items with associated operational development to erect a timber building and install an access track and areas of hardstanding Data via plota.co.uk

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4 Feb 2026

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Approved

26 Jun 2026

Approved on 26 Jun 2026 · Last checked 25 Jul 2026

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Associated applications 2

Approved26 Jun 20267/2026/5040This application
The making of a material change of use from agriculture to a mixed use of agriculture, commercial timber processing…
Conditions 5 discharged
- ConditionsApproval of details reserved by conditions 5 (location plan for external timber21 Jul 20267/2026/5389

Site constraints 12

Water Supply and WasteArea of special control for advertsRisk of Flooding from Surface WaterPrevious planning applicationsImportant roadside vergeTrunk roadEnforcement notices

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: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Water Supply and WasteCouncil record