
Planit-IE selected for Windermere vision
A team led by landscape architects Planit-IE has been appointed to map out a 20-year plan for the major redevelopment of Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere.
A team led by landscape architects Planit-IE has been appointed to map out a 20-year plan for the major redevelopment of Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere.
A countryside management firm has been sentenced over the death of a father-of-four who was working on Waterfront business park in Barrow-in-Furness when he was struck by a piece of metal that flew off a strimmer at high speed.
Reading-based Cynergin Consultants has won a £1.5m energy services contract with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
Hadrian's Wall Heritage, a not-for-profit company, is seeking a development partner to create a visitor centre at Bowness House Farm in the historic village of Bowness-on-Solway.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded provisional grant support towards preserving the distinctive landscape of Morecambe Bay as part of a national initiative.
Cumbria County Council has picked Balfour Beatty to rebuild a bridge swept away by floods in November 2009.
The Government has confirmed sites in Lancashire, Cumbria and North Wales as being suitable for new nuclear power stations by 2025.
Danish energy giant DONG Energy and Scottish Power Renewables have agreed to go ahead with the construction of a 108-turbine wind farm in the Irish Sea, with an operational base in Barrow-in-Furness.
Campaigners including Sir Christopher Bonington, Friends of the Lake District and Campaign for the Protection of Rural England want the Lakes and Yorkshire Dales National Parks to be extended. Read their case.
The Blackpool-based energy-from-crops company is holding a public consultation for its third proposed facility in Cumbria.