Plans for Roanhead holiday lodge resort return For the latest information and updates on this development, visit our separate Campaign section> Update 8th February 2024 A revised planning application has been submitted for the development of a holiday lodge park at Roanhead on the Furness coast. The number of lodges has been reduced but the proposal remains huge, and will still result in significant harm to this sensitive area. Previous responses won’t count, so we need your help again to challenge the plans. A response template to help you can be found here Read our response (Feb 2024) here, and the Appendix here Update 27th Sept 2023We are aware that a further proposal on land adjacent the 450-lodge Roanhead development is afoot. It comprises 62 lodges, 40 touring caravan/motorhome/ camper pitches and visitor facilities.At this stage, it is a screening request, meaning the landowner/developer Queensland County Park Ltd. is just asking for Westmorland & Furness Council’s view on whether an Environmental Impact Assessment would be required for such a proposal. We continue to work with other relevant organisations and the local community, including the Save Roanhead group, and will give further updates, once we have had chance to see the proposals and consider next steps – we will need to carefully consider the relationship between this and the larger proposal already under consideration. Keep up to date here Update 17th July 2023 Challenge to Roanhead plans continues – there’s still time to comment! We are pleased to hear that many people have submitted objections to plans for a 450-lodge holiday resort at Roanhead – a sensitive stretch of the Furness coastline. Together with the National Trust, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, the Woodland Trust and many local people, we have now submitted our strong objection to the scheme. Read Our Response here and a review of the Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment hereAlthough the official deadline has now passed, there is still chance to have your say, as we have had confirmation from the council that responses will still be accepted.Please do consider joining us in speaking up for this special area – even a brief email to the council [email protected] will help!Find out more: https://www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk/roanhead-response-guidance 6th April 2023 Concern continues to grow around plans for a 450-lodge holiday park at Roanhead, a much-valued stretch of the Furness coastline. The developer has now released some feedback from their own consultation, which shows that less than 30% of respondents have a positive opinion of the proposals and that biodiversity impacts and landscape/visual impacts ranked highly amongst the concerns raised.Thank you to everyone who has submitted photographs of the area to help us demonstrate what’s at stake, which includes dramatic views, rare wildlife, sensitive habitats and a sense of wildness, space and tranquillity.Please do continue to let us know your thoughts on this proposal by emailing [email protected]We now know that a planning application can be expected during the week commencing 24th April. We will be making a written response, but we’d urge anyone with concerns about the plans to make their own response too. We’ll post guidance on doing so on our website. 17th February 2023 We reported last year on plans for a large holiday lodge park development, of 450 holiday lodges, close to the sensitive coastal dune habitats at Roanhead and Sandscale Haws, between Askam and Barrow in Furness. We now know that the developers are planning to submit a planning application by Easter 2023. See their plans here. The developers are currently collecting feedback via a short online survey which we would encourage you to complete. This will not negate the need to express your views to the council when the planning application is submitted as comments made now won’t be taken on board by the planners. However, completing the survey will serve to inform the proposals as the developer works towards a planning application, and the planning application may therefore be amended based on the feedback that you submit. Complete the survey at the link: https://roanhead.com/survey/ 12th February 2023 We reported last year on plans for a large lodge park development close to the sensitive coastal dune habitats at Roanhead and Sandscale Haws, between Askam and Barrow in Furness. We now know that the developers are planning to submit a planning application by Easter 2023. Along with other environmental organisations, we have substantial concerns about what this proposal might mean for the much-valued coastal landscape in this area. The following drop-in sessions are being held during February to enable people to find out more: Barrow in Furness: Wednesday 15th February 2023 – 12 to 3pm at The Forum Dalton: Wednesday 15th February 2023 – 5pm to 8pm at Dalton Council Chamber Askam: Thursday 16th February 2023 – 5pm to 8pm at Rankin Hall Image: Sandscale Haws, Duddon sands by Richard Murgatroyd Manage Cookie Preferences