Contact us
Head office
Tel: 01539 724555
Fax: 01539 740822
Minicom: 01539 792690
email: or fill in our Contact Us Form.
Office opening hours: Monday to Thursday 9am - 5pm and Friday 9am - 4.45pm.
Lake District National Park Authority
Murley Moss
Oxenholme Road
Kendal LA9 7RL
Nearest railway station: Oxenholme - 0.66 miles, 15 minutes' walk or 3 minutes' taxi ride
Map to LDNPA head office at Murley Moss Business Park Kendal (PDF)
Nearest lake
Our LA9 7RL offices are in a business park in Kendal. The nearest lake is Windermere - please use the postcode LA23 1LJ or for a longer list including other lakes please look at: Postcodes for Sat Nav.
Planning enquiries
A Duty Planner is available 9.30 - 12.30pm Monday to Friday. Call 01539 724555 or in person at our head office in Kendal. This is a first come first served basis and no appointment is necessary. You can also email planning@lakedistrict.gov.uk
Please check in advance if you wish to contact a specific member of staff.
Complaints, comments and compliments
We want to provide high quality services at all times - please see What can you expect from us?. If you feel any aspect of our service has been at fault we want to know about it and investigate. A complaint can be any dissatisfaction you, or other members of the public, experience about the standard of a service we provide.
There are more details of our complaints policy and a complaints form in Complaints, comments and feedback.
General enquiries
Events enquiries
Our Events section including links to other organisations.
Tel: 0845 272 0004
Learning and education enquiries
Please take a look at our Learning section.
Other addresses, contact details and maps
Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre
Windermere
LA23 1LJ
Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre (opens in new window)
Tel: 015394 46601
Fax: 015394 43523
Directions and map to Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre (PDF)
Coniston Boating Centre
Coniston Boating Centre web page for more details.
Coniston Boating Centre
Lake Road
Coniston
LA21 8EW
Tel: 015394 41366
Fax: 015394 41833
Email: conistonbc@lakedistrict.gov.uk
Online booking for Coniston Boating Centre
The payment side is dealt with by Freedom of the Lake District. If you have a problem with your booking, please use their freephone customer services helpline on 0800 634 7020 open 7 days a week all day or email info@thefreedomof.com
Information Centres
We run three information centres. Click the links for more details:
Rangers
For contact details and area maps, please look at our Rangers page.
Windermere Lake Rangers
For reporting byelaw issues or asking advice:
Tel: 0844 225 2922
If they are busy, please leave your message and a contact number and they will call you back.
For more general information please contact our Information Centres
Ambleside Depot
Tel: 015394 32574
Threlkeld Depot
Tel: 017687 79771
Fax number 017687 79264
Broughton Depot
Tel: 01229 716061
Blencathra Centre
Education Centre enquiries Tel: 017687 79601
National Park Authority office Tel: 017687 79633
Blencathra Centre
Threlkeld
Keswick
CA12 4SG
Map to Blencathra Centre (PDF)
Specialist enquiries
Press enquiries only
Mick Casey, Media and Marketing Coordinator
Tel: 01539 792683
email: mick.casey@lakedistrict.gov.uk
or check out our section or Filming and filming permissions page.
Website enquiries only
If you would like to exchange reciprocal links, please email your website address and details to:
email: helen.reynolds@lakedistrict.gov.uk
Helen Reynolds - Web Editor
For website enquiries please call 01539 724555. For general enquiries ask the operator directly.
Latest news: We've just moved this website to a new behind-the-scenes system. We have done extensive checking on our 800-plus pages,. But if you find something is missing, we'd be grateful if you could email details to our Web Editor helen.reynolds@lakedistrict.gov.uk