Community News
Community News - July 2026
Staveley with Ings Visions
A drop-in event for all those interested in the future of our community. This is a joint event with ACT.
Enjoy:
Discussions with fellow residents. There will be an opportunity to sit down with a cup of tea and discuss with others about what you find important.
Refreshments - provided by the young people of YPOS.
Children’s actvities.
Discover:
More about community groups.
Hear from the Lake District National Park Authority, about the Local Plan - what it means for our community and how we can have a say. Chloe
Meet an officer from Westmorland and Furness to help them understand our community and how they can support our aspirations. Sally Nelhams, Community Development Officer | Safe and Strong Communities, will join us from 2.30.
Discover more about our community, who we are, what we think and our Community Plan. Over the last couple of years there have been several surveys. They will all be used to help devise the Community Plan.
Act!
Volunteer to make our community a better place to be. This might be to help write a revised Community Plan Action Plan or volunteer with one of the community groups.
Email staveleyings.parish@gmail.com for information. there is a list some of the successful grant applications by two community groups.
A Bench of Hope for our Community
Have you seen the new bench near the hard play area? It is there to create a peaceful space for reflection, rememberence and support.
The idea for the bench came from the shared grief we felt for those we lost too soon. It stands as a reminder that no one should face life’s challenges alone and that hope, support, and understanding are always within reach. It’s a place where people can sit quietly, remember loved ones, gather their thoughts, or simply take a moment for themselves. It is a symbol of compassion, connection, and the importance of looking out for one another.If this bench encourages even one person to seek support, start a conversation, or feel less alone, it will have achieved something truly special. Engraved on the bench is a message of hope.
The QR code provides direct access to a range of mental health resources and support services provided by Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). Thanks to Peacock Farm who funded the bench and Staveley and Kentmere Builders who installed it.
To find out more click here.
Words from the Woods
Summer is well and truly blooming amongst the trees, the ferns are an amazingly vivid shade of green and the tiny Yellow Pimpernels are shining brightly from the woodland floor.
The woodland volunteers have been working hard this year on improving the boundaries, turning their hand to dry stone walling and fencing repairs. They have also helped install the new interpretation and waymarkers you may find popping up around the woodlands.
Our Young Rangers group (11-16yr olds) have been helping in all sorts of ways this year, joining in with coppicing and dry stone walling, as well as spearheading their own little species recovery project. After finding out that a lot of beetle species are in decline, the young rangers have spent hours in the woods creating beetle stumparies and log gardens to provide protected little habitat zones for them to breed.
Around both Craggy Wood and Dorothy Farrers Spring woods you will notice lots of new habitat boxes popping up. We have installed 160 boxes of different shapes and sizes (some of them very colourful too), this is to provide more nesting/resting areas for the many different bird and bat species we have here in the woods. A big thank you to the YPOS youth group who helped build all these new habitat boxes for us.
Find out more about the Woodlands
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Community News - February 2026
About Money - in this item there is a list some of the successful grant applications by two community groups.
SENS worked with the Parish Council to put together the Westmorland and Furness Nature Partnership Fund grant application. SENS co-ordinated the writing of the grant application (with support from Parish Councillors) , submitted it and managed the finances. It was based on items from the Community Plan.
Staveley with Ings Together applied for the other successful grants mentioned and managed the finances.
Reducing Sewage Spills - in the River and on our Streets
A reminder our goals with our work in Staveley are to:
Reduce the spills of sewage into the River Kent to an average of no more than 10 per year on a 10 year average from 2029
Have no sewage spills on the streets of Staveley to current design standards, which is a 1 in 30 year storm event
We have recently started on site at our wastewater treatment works where our plans include installing some new equipment and building two new stormwater storage tanks. This work is all within our existing site and will help us to treat more wastewater, as well as increasing storage for stormwater which will help to reduce spills. Our further plans include two more phases of work:
Installing a new pipeline from Brow Lane, across the field and partly down Windermere Road to reduce surface water (est. start April)
This work will see us constructing a new pipeline through the field from Brow Lane down to Windermere Road to take surface water (rainwater only) away from Brow Lane to alleviate the pressures that the lane currently faces. The new pipeline will join an already established highways drainage point where the surface water will run into the River Gowan. Extensive modelling has been done on this, and the additional water entering the River will not effect the levels.
Upsizing the sewer in Gowan Terrace and partly in Main Street to help reduce sewer flooding (est start July)
This involves us working within both the River Kent and the village playground, and due to fish breeding season constraints, this work can only take place between July and September. We will need to remove some equipment from the playground as well as the large conifer (this is pencilled in to be removed tomorrow, 10/02, weather depending) and the playground will need to be closed during operational hours. We are currently exploring the option of having the playground open during evenings and weekends, when we are not working, however this is TBC. We are working with the Staveley Village Association on all of this activity and will be replacing the removed playground equipment with brand new equipment which is being decided upon by the SVA and the school. We will also replace the tree once works are completed and we have committed to the SVA that the playground will be back open by 1st September. Once the works in the playground and River Kent are complete, we will then move on to working in Gowan Terrace/Main Street and are working closely with the residents of Gowan Terrace to provide alternative parking options whilst the works are ongoing.
We are also working with Westmorland & Furness Highways team to coordinate all works and can assure you that whilst we are working in Windermere Road and utilising traffic management, we will not be working within the road at Main Street. We want to help avoid as much disruption as possible whilst completing these essential works.
We will be holding a public drop-in event on 4th March, 4pm - 7pm, at the Village Institute for residents to come along and find out more about our plans, as well as further information on the playground and timelines for all phases. We would appreciate it if you could please include mention of this in your next community newsletter if the timings fit with when you will be sending it out?
Click here to view the information available at the drop-in.
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INFORMATION FROM PREVIOUS EDITIONS
DEMOCRACY NOW /BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD
We need to be ready to respond to a review of the LDNPA Local Plan. You can find it here.
If you’d like to know more about how the LDNPA sees Staveley there’s a series of interactive maps that allow you to see the Lake District National Park in relation to each of the policies. Zoom in and find Staveley on each of the maps - for example you can see which areas are designated for which function etc. Click here to go straight to the maps.
If you want to make a difference to your community join the Parish Council.
When the Parish Council look at a planning application we use our own quick checklist document. Thanks to Mike Cambray for developing this.
You can find some of the buildings we value on our website here.
Past Copies
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