Preferred partners named by Sellafield

West Cumbria Mining will next month find out if its plans for a new metallurgical coal mine at the former Marchon works site near Whitehaven can go ahead.

A planning application is expected in early 2019 as the Environment Agency seeks to put in place improved flood defences in the Cumbrian city.

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.

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.

Copeland Borough Council has launched a survey to help it assess the success of the five-year Whitehaven Townscape Heritage Initiative, which reaches its end in December. 

Greater Manchester and Cumbria have been chosen as two of four national “green pioneers” as part of the Government’s 25-year environmental strategy, outlined by the Prime Minister and environment secretary Michael Gove this week.

OneAIM, a joint venture between Amec Foster Wheeler and Interserve, has won a key framework contract to support reprocessing plants and facilities at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.

Frank Whittle Partnership has been appointed as project manager and quantity surveyor on a £3.4m restoration and extension programme at Carlisle Cathedral’s Fratry Building.