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Featured: Funding our future: Budget Consultation 2026/27
Welcome to our budget consultation. Your responses will help us set the budget for the next financial year. Foreword Westmorland and Furness Council is now in its third year of delivering many of your essential local services – from waste collection and recycling to social...
Closes 16 January 2026
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Featured: Proposed Public Space Protection Orders across 9 Westmorland and Furness areas
Public Space Protection Orders provides additional powers to Westmorland and Furness Council and Cumbria Police under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to take positive action and act as a deterrent to prevent nuisance behaviour in public spaces. Before an Order can be...
Closes 9 February 2026
Open Consultations
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Westmorland and Furness ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistants) Impact Survey 2025 (for ELSAs)
This survey is for ELSAs to complete. The ELSA course has been running in Westmorland and Furness, and previously Cumbria, since spring 2022. ELSAs are Emotional Literacy Support Assistants. They are teaching assistants who have had special training from Educational Psychologists to...
Closes 16 January 2026
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Westmorland and Furness ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistants) Impact Survey 2025 (for Headteachers)
This survey is for Headteachers to complete. The ELSA course has been running in Westmorland and Furness, and previously Cumbria, since spring 2022. ELSAs are Emotional Literacy Support Assistants. They are teaching assistants who have had special training from Educational...
Closes 16 January 2026
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Funding our future: Budget Consultation 2026/27
Welcome to our budget consultation. Your responses will help us set the budget for the next financial year. Foreword Westmorland and Furness Council is now in its third year of delivering many of your essential local services – from waste collection and recycling to social...
Closes 16 January 2026
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SEND Information and Advice Support Service - Network Survey
It is important that people who use the SEND Information and Advice Support Service (IASS), have a good experience and get the information, advice and support they need - after all it is why we exist! To make sure we are doing a good job, the national SEND IASS Network ask us to gather feedback on...
Closes 31 January 2026
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Proposed Public Space Protection Orders across 9 Westmorland and Furness areas
Public Space Protection Orders provides additional powers to Westmorland and Furness Council and Cumbria Police under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to take positive action and act as a deterrent to prevent nuisance behaviour in public spaces. Before an Order can be...
Closes 9 February 2026
Closed Consultations
Draft Design Code Consultation 2025 - Long Survey
Background to the Draft Design Code We have prepared a Draft Design Code following earlier community engagement where you told us about your views on design for Westmorland and...
Draft Design Code Consultation 2025 - Short Survey
Draft Design Code - Short Survey Westmorland and Furness Council has prepared a draft Design Code following earlier community engagement where you told us about your views on design for...
Community Governance Review consultation
Westmorland and Furness Council is under a duty to keep parish governance arrangements under review and this is done through a Community Governance Review (CGR). Previous CGRs were undertaken by...
Consultation on proposed Admission Arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools – 2027-28
All schools must have admission arrangements that clearly set out how children will be admitted, including the criteria that will be applied if there are more applications than places at the school. ...
Penrith Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan consultation
Westmorland and Furness Council are preparing a Character Area Appraisal and Management Plan (CAAMP) for Penrith Conservation Area as part of their statutory duty to preserve and enhance the heritage...
Barrow Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan consultation
Westmorland and Furness Council are preparing a Character Area Appraisal and Management Plan (CAAMP) for Barrow Conservation Area as part of their statutory duty to preserve and enhance the heritage...