Windermere Waterfront

The Windermere Waterfront Programme is made up of a series of regeneration projects, based around Lake Windermere.  The Lake is District National Park Authority working with public and private sector organisations (including South Lakeland District Council) as well as local communities to bring these projects forward. 

The programme is all about creating a world-class visitor experience around Lake  Windermere by focusing on, and transforming, the key strategic sites around the lake in a way that secures a cohesive destination.  All strategic sites should be linked via the lake, managing the visitor pressures at this key destination.' (from Lake District National Park Local Development Framework, Core Strategy, Preferred Options consultation May 2008).

The projects making up the Windermere Waterfront Programme are:

• Waterhead, Ambleside public realm enhancement
• Low Wood Conference Centre
• Lake District National Park Visitor Centre at Brockhole
• Windermere Steamboat Museum
• Bowness Bay and The Glebe
• Lakeland Motor Museum and rail halt, Backbarrow
• Southern node of Windermere
• Sustainable transport programme

The Lake District National Park Authority released an update on the project.

 Windermere Waterfron Progress Newsletter June 2009 (PDF, 37 Kb)

For more information on the WIndermere Waterfront Programme visit 

www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/caringfor/projects/waterfrontprogramme.htm