UKC

'The Secretary of State has decided to approve extensions to Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks'
At long last (two years after the public inquiry finished) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-parks-extensions-to-the...

In reply to Lankyman:

Good news.

What effect will it have on:

Planning applications?

House prices?

In reply to Rigid Raider:




I'm not sure - house prices were already pretty sky-high in places like Kirkby Lonsdale or the Lyth Valley, on a par with those just a few miles away in both parks. Planning applications? Just consider some of the developments that were suggested for these extensions - major landscape impactors like the Whinash windfarm and the (Westmorland) Borrowdale holiday village.

In reply to Rigid Raider:

It means that planning applications will now be within the remit of the national park as apposed to South Lakeland District Council. I expect there will be a rush to get thing through before the change next summer