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Search the Public Notice PortalA fresh bid to run a temporary campsite in Eskdale has been refused after planners said visitors could be left without a safe escape route during flooding - despite the same flood assessment helping secure approval two years ago.
Lake District National Park Authority rejected plans for a campsite of up to 50 pitches at Dalegarth, near Boot, operating on selected dates between May and August.
Most of the site is now classed as Flood Zone 2, but officers said the access route passes through Flood Zone 3, where there is a high risk of flooding.
They concluded the submitted assessment did not explain how campers could reach a safe place of refuge.
It is the latest chapter in a planning saga stretching back to 2023, involving a withdrawn application, enforcement and stop notices, an unsuccessful appeal and three separate attempts to secure temporary campsite use.
In 2024, the authority granted prior approval for a 60-day campsite after saying the flood assessment and evacuation plan were acceptable.
However, a planning inspector later found that the assessment did not properly address the track through Flood Zone 3.
After visiting the site, inspector Mark Harbottle said signs directed visitors along that route and concluded passage through high-risk land was 'integral' to the campsite.
He added that this 'should perhaps have been considered' before the authority granted the 2024 approval.
The inspector dismissed appeals over a wider seasonal campsite operation in April 2025, although he amended the enforcement notice so the owners could continue seeking permission for temporary campsites of up to 50 pitches and 60 days each year.
A further application was refused in 2025 over the absence of safe access and escape routes.
The Environment Agency raised no objection to this year's proposal within its remit, but said it did not assess the adequacy of emergency evacuation arrangements and advised the authority to consider rescue and emergency-planning implications.
Applicant Kate Stanley argued the authority had previously accepted the temporary use and should act consistently.
She said another campsite on the same river and within the same flood zone had recently been approved, and claimed there was 'no sound planning basis' for refusing Dalegarth.
But officers said the latest application still failed to demonstrate that campers could safely leave the site during a flood.
