Park Services
To contact a member of staff, please call 01539 724555 or email hq@lakedistrict.gov.uk
Leading our contribution to the management and accessibility of the National Park, through partnerships and effective use of our property. Overseeing our organisational approach to providing access to information.
Park Management
This service supports local communities. It has been designed to fit with the needs of local residents and to the match the distinctive areas found within the National Park.
What are the aims of Park Management?
To work positively with local people, community groups and other organisations to provide sound advice, deliver high quality countryside maintenance and improvement work. We will also help develop policy and plans that help us to look after our distinctive local landscape in innovative ways that enable people to enjoy and care for the National Park.
This will be done in three key areas:
1. Community
- delivering innovative opportunities for looking after, understanding and enjoyment of the National Park
- working closely with communities to understand and help them meet their needs in ways that contribute to outcomes of the Vision for the National Park
2. Access and recreation
- encouraging responsible recreational use, maintaining and enhancing people's access to the countryside and water
- improving access and recreation opportunities that contribute to sustainable transport and tourism
3. Landscape management
- looking after important habitats and landscapes including our own countryside property
- supporting land managers and working with partners to protect and enhance the landscape
The teams
There are two Park Management Teams covering the north and south of the national park. These teams include our Field Rangers, Park Management Rangers, Access specialists and project officers. Find out more on Rangers page.
Property Services
Includes surveyors, a buildings manager and carbon reduction adviser to ensure our offices and depots are fit for purpose. It also looks after the 9,000 hectares of other beautiful properties we own, from Caldbeck and Uldale Commons and Bassenthwaite Lake in the north to coastal heath at Silecroft and Rusland woodlands in the south.
This area maximises opportunities for our property portfolio to be an exemplar of best practice in sustainable asset management and demonstrate the work of the Authority
Preparing, implementing and reviewing the Strategic Asset Management Plan
Coordinating the management of the Authority’s property portfolio to provide:
- operational facilities that enable all members, staff and volunteers to offer an excellent service.
- non-operational properties that offer high quality and world-class visitor experiences and add to the spectacular landscape.
Maximising opportunities for partners to use our property
Bringing the work of the National Park Authority to life for all generations and all abilities through imaginative use of our property portfolio
Utilising the volunteer service to enable anyone to contribute to the management of the properties managed by the Authority
Information Services
- To maximise opportunities for engaging and providing information about the National Park and the Authority’s work, to people visiting the National Park, and living and working in it. To lead and support how we communicate with people, provide opportunities for education and promote understanding.
- Working in partnership with other organisations to coordinate and distribute information and manage information ‘points’ whether they are existing information centres, contact centre or evolving ‘visitor information points’.
- Running Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre (opens in new window)
- Providing additional advice, interpretation and support to customers who need help to receive and understand information
- Dynamic communication with wide audiences, particularly those who are hard to reach
- Signposting people to complementary and additional information
- a high profile educational programme to develop understanding about all aspects of the National Park and the Vision - supporting and complementing the subject specific work of other teams
- production and publishing information which supports our activities through the web, media, publications, contact centre and information centres
- The Volunteer Service, enabling anyone to contribute to this special National Park