Ulverston Police Station overhaul primed for green light

New offices, serviced apartments, and houses could be built on the historic plot off Neville Street subject to approval this week, eight years after the force vacated the site.

South Lakeland’s planning committee is expected to sign off on Building Design Northern’s multi-million-pound plans to regenerate the Old Police Station and Courthouse buildings when it meets on Thursday.

Approval would see the former Ulverston Police Station unit reimagined to create office space, alongside the jail cells that would become boutique serviced apartments.

There would be additional flats built where the superintendent’s now-demolished headquarters once stood, with three houses also proposed to replace the former MOT garages on site.

Meanwhile, the former courthouse would be transformed to feature a restaurant pavilion surrounded by shops.

Plans were submitted for the scheme in May.

To learn more about the proposals, search for application number SL/2023/0400 on Westmorland and Furness Council’s planning portal.