A plan to help protect the historic character of a South Lakes village has been adopted.
South Lakeland District Council has agreed to go ahead with the conservation area management plan for Cartmel, which has identified around 20 buildings of ‘particular merit’.
These, alongside listed properties in the village, like Cartmel Priory, will be taken into account when planning applications are considered which may affect them, their site or their setting.
Also known as non-designated heritage assets, properties included on the council’s local list of buildings of historic and architectural significance include:
- sash-windowed Georgian houses
- a worker’s cottage
- a former farmstead
- Wheelhouse Bridge and Pepper Bridge
- the village’s Victorian primary school
- the cemetery lych gate
- Cartmel Methodist Church
- the gate piers and walls of the playground created to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Councillor Helen Chaffey, SLDC portfolio holder for housing, said: “The council will be writing to all property owners whose properties have been placed on the local list for Cartmel.
“I’d like to reassure people that having your property on this list does not in itself impose any extra planning controls, and does not affect the work you can do without planning consent.”
