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Green/Open Spaces in Staveley & Ings - 2025

Thank you for your interest in this survey.

This survey is part of our Staveley with Ings Community Plan development it is funded by Westmorland and Furness Partnership Project.

The Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA) will be consulting about their new Local Plan soon. This will be crucial in deciding any development in the village. National government policy is committed to increase housebuilding across the country which will include an increase in development inside the National Park. We want to be prepared to respond to the consultation so that we can ensure that we represent the views of all residents.

Once the Local Plan has designated areas for development (housing, amenity or employment) it will be hard, if not impossible, to shape future building in the village.

Make your view known by completing the survey and come to the drop-in on 18 March in the Institute between 5 and 7 pm.

There are 6 questions which should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete.

And all completed entries (by midnight 30th March, 2025) will be entered into a PRIZE DRAW to win a £50 voucher to spend in local businesses.


1.The last Local Plan designated some areas for development - Amenity, Housing, Employment and Recreation (link to map here)
Amenity Local Green Space — designation applies to land which makes a significant positive contribution to the visual amenity or character of a settlement and, or it provides opportunities for informal recreation (such as dog walking) by the local community. Not all Amenity Local Green Space is publicly accessible.
Recreation Local Green Spaces — designations are those areas which, based on evidence, are important locally because they provide needed formal recreation opportunities; examples of this designation includes football pitches and school playing fields.
Allocation for housing or employment identifies specific areas of land where LDNPA are confident in supporting development for particular purposes.
Do you agree with these designations for the 'development' areas listed below?
Agree
Disagree
Big Meadow (Amenity)
Crookfield (Housing)
Land opposite Danes Terrace (Employment)
Ayland Recreation Ground (Recreation)
School Grounds (Recreation)
2.Below are some spaces without designations in the previous Local Plan. Please say how much you value each one.
Essential to our community
Very important to our community
Quite important to our community
Of no real value to our community
Don't know
The Bluebell Wood at Staveley Park
The Allotments at Elfhowe
The Allotments on Kentmere Road
The Poor Field on Brow Lane
The Abbey Grounds
Alec Row
Jack's Corner
The Riverside walk (Miles without Stiles) both banks of the river and the fields surrounding it.
The river bank and the small area by Staveley Park.
The meadow opposite the Eagle and Child.
The river banks and fields around Barley Bridge and Weir that stretch up to Craggy Wood
The fields around Brow Foot, Scroggs Bridge
The fields between Kentmere Road and Reston Scar.
The fields surrounding Ings.
Ings Playground.
The Cricket Pitch in Staveley.
3.For these spaces without designations in the previous Local Plan please say if you think it should (or shouldn't) be designated as a 'green space'.
Needs to be designated as Green Space
Doesn't need to be designated as Green Space
Don't know
The Bluebell Wood at Staveley Park
The Allotments at Elfhowe
The Allotments on Kentmere Road
The Poor Field on Brow Lane
The Abbey Grounds
Alec Row
Jack's Corner
The Riverside walk (Miles without Stiles) both banks of the river and the fields surrounding it.
The river bank and the small area by Staveley Park.
The meadow opposite the Eagle and Child.
The river banks and fields around Barley Bridge and Weir that stretch up to Craggy Wood
The fields around Brow Foot, Scroggs Bridge
The fields between Kentmere Road and Reston Scar.
The fields surrounding Ings.
Ings Playground.
The Cricket Pitch in Staveley.
4.Are there other green/open places you value. Please list below and briefly explain why. We need evidence for any of the places we want to preserve.
5.If you had to choose one green/open space in the village for housing development where would it be?
6.Is there anything else that you would like to say that you think is relevant to this study?

It might be to emphasise or expand on some of your responses or mention something that you have not been able to say before.
7.I am:
8.What is your postcode?
9.Finally, if you would like to be entered into the prize draw to win a £50 voucher to spend in local businesses please enter an email address below so we can contact you if you win. Just enter NO if not.
10.Thank you very much for taking part in this survey. Your answers are very important to the study.

And don’t forget to click SUBMIT now to submit your answers. THANK YOU.
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