National Trust granted permission to demolish bus shelter

The unnamed bus shelter is located near the junction of roads C4017 and C4004 opposite the driveway of the Old Vicarage in Ennerdale Bridge, Cleator.

Believed to have been constructed circa 1965, the shelter is said to be derelict and "without use for many, many years."

The size of the bus shelter is 2.05m wide, by 2.24m long, and 2.24m high.

Due to its small structure, a formal planning application for demolition was not necessary, but the application sought a Certificate of Lawfulness to "have it formally recorded on file that this matter has been formally assessed."

The applicant on behalf of the National Trust stated that "no meaningful purpose has been found for [the shelter's] continued existence."

Photos accompanying the application show the former bus shelter to be a dilapidated state inside and out.

It is understood that the structure's last known use was as a bus shelter for school children "waiting for a car to pick them up and take them to Whitehaven Grammar School in the mid-1960s.

The former bus shelter is set for demolition (Image: Google Maps)

The application shows that the bus shelter was recorded on an Ordinance Survey Map in the 1970s.

Whitehaven Grammar school became a comprehensive secondary school in 1984, and the application states that it is "unlikely to have been in use at all" since that time.

It is planned that an appointed contractor will demolish the structure "using mechanical means" and remove the rubble with waste disposed of via registered waste carrier.

The Lake District National Park Authority granted the National Trust a Certificate of Lawfulness to demolish the structure on May 14.

It is unknown when the demolition is set to take place, but it is expected to take place over the course of one day.