Westmorland and Furness Call for Sites 2024: Housing and Employment Sites

Overview

We are starting work and gathering evidence on a new Local Plan for Westmorland and Furness (excluding the National Parks). When this is adopted, it will replace the existing district-wide Local Plans adopted by the former Barrow, Eden and South Lakeland Councils. We need to plan for future development and understand what land might be suitable and available for this. We are currently in the process of going through all the sites submitted to the Council as part of the Call for Sites which closed on 30 September 2024 to assess the accuracy of the data provided. We are expecting to publish details of the sites submitted in early January 2025 although this will only be for information purposes and will not contain any assessment or conclusion on the suitability of any sites for inclusion within the Local Plan.

The submission of a site through the call for sites exercise does not mean that the site will be allocated. Once submitted, sites will be subject to assessment in the SHELAA and further assessment through the emerging Local Plan.

Important Note:

Housing and employment site allocations in the Barrow, Eden and South Lakeland Local Plans, which do not yet have planning permission, will be reviewed to determine if they remain suitable, available and achievable for allocation in the new Westmorland and Furness Local Plan to 2045. This will include sites or parts of sites, where permission has lapsed, or applications are pending or withdrawn. It will also include Broad Locations in the South Lakeland Local Plan.