®Planning appeal decision
Overwater Hall Hotel, Ireby, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 1HH
redevelopment of hotel to provide additional bedrooms, leisure and dining facilities, siting of 12 no. ‘dark-sky’ cabins, creation of new car park and change of use and adaptation of outbuildings to provide offices and staff accommodation, associated access, drainage and landscaping works
- Authority
- Lake District
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Butcher H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the works on the special architectural and historic interest of Overwater Hall Hotel and its setting which includes the English Lake District World Heritage Site and the Lake District National Park
What decided it
The harm to the special architectural and historic interest of the listed building and its setting, when weighed against the moderate public benefits of the proposal, was not justified under NPPF paragraph 205.
Framework references: 205, 208
Plan policies cited: Policy 1, Policy 7
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.