AN application for brown and white tourist signs for the Holbeck Ghyll Country House Restaurant and Spa, near Windermere, was refused by county councillors.

The proposal had been recommended for approval by the authority’s Highways and Transport Working Group but was rejected at a meeting of Cumbria County Council's Local Committee for South Lakeland.

Area and highways manager Nick Raymond said in a report that it would be 'an important precedent-setting decision for tourist signs to hotels in the South Lakeland area of the National Park'.