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Erection of 5no Glamping Pods, Skelwith Fold Caravan Park Ltd, Skelwith Fold, Ambleside. For Henry Wild. Rear single storey extension, replacement front porch, Dodds Howe Cottage, Crosthwaite, Kendal. For Mr and Mrs D Grundy. Demolition of commercial garage (Class E) and erection of dwellinghouse following withdrawal of application 7/2020/4094, Fell View Garage, Eskdale. For Mr and Mrs Mark and Alison Rutherford. Fell non-native and invasive rhododendron Ponticum and prunus laurocerasus overgrown shrubbery. Remove limb/branch 1 oak (T045). Fell 1 beech (T012), Storrs Hall Hotel, Storrs Park, Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere. For Mr Nicholson. Creation of hardstanding as stacking area for timber and creation of track, Gillbank, Colthouse, Ambleside. Mr Akram Busaidy.
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Lake Bala
In whitewater destinations such as Slovenia, they pray to the weather gods for sufficient meltwater for rapids. In Lake Bala, mid-Wales, they cheat. A dam release on the Tryweryn river guarantees grade 3-4 rapids for every visitor to the National White Water Centre. It may sound hairy-chested, but it’s great family fun: either two hours’ guided rough ’n’ tumble or a rafting safari – a bobble down the lower Tryweryn, a swirl through ancient woodland, then bara brith and a cuppa in handsome Bala town. If that makes Lake Bala sound a throwback to traditional jolly hols, well, it is – elsewhere, there’s cycling and steam-train rides. Rafting costs from £90pp. Stay in Dolgellau at the Slate Shed (doubles B&B from £80) or opt for glamping in a yurt on the attached campsite, from £80, at Graig Wen.
Cornwall – brace yourself.
The places Britons are most desperate to visit once No10 lifts the lockdown have been revealed, and Cornwall is top of the pile.
The ranking has been compiled by Big 7 Travel, which took suggestions from its team of travel experts and its 409,000 Instagram followers on the best destinations for a post-lockdown staycation. It then asked 80,000 readers of its sister website EnjoyTravel.com to vote for the top 10 places.
Cornwall’s position will not surprise too many people, but London coming 15th might.
It has been beaten in the survey vote by the Lake District (second), the Yorkshire Dales (third), Edinburgh (fourth), Loch Lomond (fifth) and Manchester (10th).