Workington Stadium plans to be scaled back

The city council has signed off the redevelopment of the leisure centre, a project that has been planned since 2009, although the scheme will now cost nearly £26m instead of the originally-planned £14m.

The contractor has handed over the £7m project at Kingmoor Park in Carlisle for car dealership Sytner.

The fate of the £29m development, hanging in the balance following local elections earlier this month, is due to be decided at a planning committee meeting next week.

Thomas Armstrong Construction has started work to transform the town’s former bus station into a workspace for digital, tech, media, and creative companies.

The first phase of the scheme, designed to avoid a repeat of the devastating floods caused by Storm Desmond, is set to be signed off by Carlisle Council next week.

Allerdale Council will be forced to debate proposals for the £29m stadium-led development following a bid by independent councillors to halt the scheme’s progress.

The contractor has been picked to build a cancer centre at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle with the project due to complete in January 2021.

Cumbria County Council has backed plans for a £175m metallurgical coal mine on a brownfield site near Whitehaven with work set to get under way by the end of the year.

Thomas Armstrong Construction has kicked off the first phase of a flexible office development at Barrow’s Waterfront Business Park, bringing forward 15,000 sq ft over two blocks.