Plans for homes and accessible holiday lets

Planning documents say the buildings would meet a very specific tourist need

Plans for new homes and "fully accessible" holiday accommodation on a former military camp in the Lake District are set to be approved.

The Lake District National Park Authority is recommended to approve a scheme by FN Solutions to build 50 homes, eight short term holiday lets and a community hub at Wellbank in Bootle.

A previous application including a hotel and business units remains a "fall back option", the Local Democracy Reporting Service reports.

Works have started on the site in relation to the previous application.

The new proposals include 12 affordable properties - as well as units designed to allow disabled and non-disabled guests to take holidays together.

Plans would include a community hub

Planning documents state "extensive discussions" with hotel operators failed to find an operator for the previously proposed 40-bedroom hotel.

“However there has been demand from a specific operator to instead build fully accessible and full supported holiday units for those with medical disabilities, with shared services building (the ‘hub’).

"These would be very bespoke purpose built units meeting a very specific tourist need."

Members of the development control committee for the Lake District National Park are set to approve the plans on April 3.