Work restarts on £5m Pooley Bridge

The Daniel Thwaites-owned hotel, which overlooks Lake Windermere on a six-acre site, will close in April ahead of an extensive refurbishment which will cost between £6m and £15m and could take up to 18 months.

The Home Group is planning to put in an application this month for a 65-apartment extra care development at Lightfoot Drive, aiming to start on site in the summer and complete by spring 2022.

Caddick Construction has started on site at Chancerygate’s Gateway 44 retail park in Carlisle.

The North West scooped the highest value of infrastructure contract awards in 2019 of all UK regions, thanks mainly to the £1.5bn Sellafield decommissioning project, according to data analyst Barbour ABI.

Allerdale Council has said there are "no deadlines, no plans and no aspirations" to bring forward fresh proposals for a stadium in Workington after a £29m scheme was pulled last year.

This year will see fresh services launched including a development map to complement news stories and branded content production for partners.

Twenty contractors have been awarded places on a £120m capital works framework, delivering schemes on behalf of a collection of Cumbrian councils and the university.

Work is set to begin on the Woodhouse Colliery near Whitehaven early next year after the Government decided not to step in on the £165m project.

The 900-place school, featuring 72,000 sq ft of education and amenity space, is set to open in 2021 with Wates attached as main contractor.