Cumberland presses on with 10,000-home St Cuthbert’s masterplan
Over the next 30 years, the provisional Garden Village could support around 20,000 residents and create an estimated 7,000 jobs, increasing local economy spending to £93m a year.
Cumberland Council’s cabinet is set to meet and approve the plan’s publication next week, with a seven-week consultation process to follow, with a target for adoption of the plan by 2026.
This would be a decade on from St Cuthbert’s being identified within the Carlisle Local District Plan as a broad location for growth, a designation that led to its inclusion in January 2017’s Garden Towns & Villages programme, a flagship announcement by Theresa May’s Conservative government.
The masterplan centres around three earmarked Garden Village sites south of Carlisle town centre: Durdar, Carleton, and Cummersdale.
St Cuthbert’s aims to “provide connected villages” that are “set in an attractive recreational, riverside, and landscape setting”, and will promote “innovation and technology to support attractive employment opportunities”, according to the development strategy.
Durdar has been earmarked for 7,715 homes, a district, local, and medical centre, three primary schools, a secondary school, and almost 15 acres of commercial or employment space.
Carleton will offer 1,410 homes, one local centre, around 1.5 acres of commercial/employment space, and one accommodating primary school.
The third village, Cummersdale, sits to the west of the other two and will have space for 943 properties, one local centre, a primary school, and 1.5 acres of commercial or employment space.
The second part of the development strategy allocates more than 64 acres of land for employment use, for larger scale manufacturing, logistics, and storage uses on the land east of Junction 42 of the M6.
Once the plan is published, a consultation programme to span over seven weeks will begin running across March and April this year.
Submission of the plan for examination is due by June 2025, with hearings in September 2025, and a view for adoption in July 2026.
Is there a masterplan ? The railway line looks to cut through part of the area – this could be supported by a new train station (could also function as a parkway if near M6 J42)
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