Carlisle flood defence works to start next year

Asset manager Praxis has secured shoe retailer Clarks at the former Argos unit in Kendal’s Westmorland Shopping Centre, with the store due to open in January 2019.

Five schemes in the North West have won a share of the Government’s £1m Coastal Revival Fund to help support restorations and safeguarding of heritage assets in the region’s seaside towns.

Carlisle City Council has given the go-ahead to a £19m redevelopment of the Sands Centre paving the way for the project to begin, nearly 10 years after it was first put forward.

Bamber Bridge-based contractor Eric Wright has started work to deliver a 23,000 sq ft extension at Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale.

Proposals to convert the K Village shopping centre into a hotel and apartments will go before South Lakeland’s planning committee on Thursday with a recommendation to approve.

A set of grade two-listed townhouses in central Carlisle, formerly used by Cumbria Council as offices, have been brought to market with planning permission in place for a residential conversion.

Penrith-based housebuilder Genesis Homes has outlined proposals for 47 properties in Frizington on a 14-acre site off the B5294, cutting nearly 100 houses from an original application submitted earlier this year.

Winterbottom’s Schoolwear has taken a 25,000 sq ft warehouse at Kingmoor Park, Carlisle, as it relocates its storage and distribution operations from Accrington.  

Acting as administrator, Duff & Phelps has reached a landmark in the development of the Backbarrow Ironworks site in the Lake District into 43 homes.