Plans have been submitted which would see a self-service launderette on Keswick’s back streets turned into a micro-bakery.
The property is a three-storey terraced building on the corner of Helvellyn Street and Eskin Street, and the Lake District National Park Authority’s planning committee will consider the application to transform the existing ground floor business.
In a design and access statement submitted to the committee, the unmanned launderette is described as being commercially unviable since the opening of a new central location for the laundry business on Bank Street.
The proposed retail bakery will be housed within the existing building with no external alterations to the property.
One letter of objection has been received since the application was submitted on June 15.
In it, a resident claims the laundrette is a “vital service to many around the area including those living in flats who also do not have washing facilities”.
The objection continues: “Keswick town centre is well supplied with food outlets and we strongly believe a bakery would be best served in the town centre itself where there are a constant supply of tourists and plenty of parking facilities.
“The area chosen is in a quiet street which can get congested with parked cars to open up a bakery in this area would encourage more vehicles into what is already a hard place to get parked for those living there.”
The application was considered by Keswick Town Council at their July meeting and members recommended approval.
No objections were raised.
