More traffic coming through Natland?

WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS COUNCIL (A591 KENDAL) (TEMPORARY TRAFFIC

REGULATION) ORDER 2025

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that to enable highway works to be carried out (“the Works”),

Westmorland and Furness Council intends to make an Order the effect of which is to : -

1. (i) Prohibit all traffic (i.e. vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists), from proceeding along the

following lengths of road: -

A591 Natland Kendal, from its junction with Brettargh Holt roundabout extending in

a northerly direction to its junction with Shenstone roundabout.

Alternative Route: via the unrestricted sections of the A591, A65 and A6.

(ii) A591 Kendal, from its junction with Plumgarths extending in a southerly direction to

its junction with Shenstone roundabout.

Alternative Route north bound traffic: via Milnthorpe Road, Kirkland, Highgate,

Lowther Street, A65 Blackhall Road, Sandes Avenue, Stricklandgate and

Windermere Road.

Alternative Route south bound traffic: via Windermere Road, Stricklandgate,

Sandes Avenue, Blackhall Road, Stramongate, Miller Bridge, Aynam Road, Nether

Bridge and Milnthorpe Road.

2. Prohibit any vehicle from proceeding at speeds in excess of 50 miles per hour along

that section of the A591 Kendal from its junction with Brettargh Holt roundabout

extending in a northerly direction to its junction with Plumgarths.

No speed limit imposed by this Order will apply to vehicles falling within regulation 3(4) of

the Road Traffic Exemptions (Special Forces) (Variation and Amendment) Regulations

2011 when used in accordance with regulation 3(5) of those Regulations.

Any queries to the Highways Hotline 0300 373 3300 or via the Westmorland and

Furness Council website quoting reference TTROW/14926.

The Order will come into operation on 29 September 2025 and may continue in force for a

maximum duration of eighteen months. However, please note that it is anticipated that the

restrictions will only be required for 5 weeks, and only as and when the appropriate traffic

signs are displayed.

Chief Legal Officer, Westmorland and Furness Council, South Lakeland House, Lowther

Street, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4DQ

Agenda for Natland Parish Council’s September Meeting

 Click here for all the details.

Harp Concert

 

Planning Application

Is this the start of another attempt by Oakmere Homes to build houses on Natland Mill Beck Lane?asks Neil A. Seddon. Click here to see a planning application to remove a hedgerow there.

Women’s Institute Meeting

 

The next meeting of the W.I. will be on Wednesday the 17th September when Dorothy Stubley will give us A History of Afternoon Tea and its Etiquette. Do come along and try us out. It’s at 7.30 in the Village Hall.

Jumble Sale Soon

 

Parish News for September

 Click here for the September news and announcements from St. Mark’s Church.

We will be sharing our new Vicar, The Reverend Becky Gibbs, with St. Thomas’s, Crosscrake, as well as Old and New Hutton, when she starts with us all in November. There should be plenty of opportunities to get to know each other and to share ideas and initiatives.  The Reverend Lucy Foster, who recently completed her curacy with us, will become Assistant Priest in the above parishes. Ed.

Craft Group restarting shortly

 

Steam Train on Saturday Evening

There’ll be a steam train chugging through on Saturday 23rd. Southbound 18:01. It will be either 34067 Tangmere or 45212 Black 5. Pat Williams.

Hymns on The Green