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Beacon Museum Cumbria Tourism Awards
Published: 28/04/2015
The Beacon Museum is a finalist in the 2015 Cumbria Tourism Awards, just two months after receiving a VisitEngland Welcome Accolade.
The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven is in the final three for the Large Visitor Attraction of the Year, sponsored by Burnetts Solicitors.
Organisers of the annual event, Cumbria Tourism said the quality of entries continues to rise, resulting in an unprecedented number of shortlisted businesses for 2015.
The Cumbria Tourism Awards celebrate the best Cumbria has to offer and are now in their 13th year.
Hands-on construction courses
Published: 28/04/2015
Tuesday 28 April 2015. For immediate release
COPELAND residents and builders can get their hands dirty at free courses in heritage construction techniques.
Former Copeland Local Plan
Copeland Development Plan
Development Planning is a vital tool in helping us and the community respond to the challenges that lie ahead for Copeland. It can help us to prepare the land, the places, the infrastructure and the services that will be needed, and it can set out the basis for making choices about new development.
This page sets out the statutory planning documents which make up the current Development Plan. Planning applications must be determined in accordance with the Development Plan unless other material considerations indicate otherwise. The current Development Plan comprises the Core Strategy and Development Management Policies DPD (Adopted in December 2013) and a number of policies “saved” from the Copeland Local Plan 2001-2016. These documents are considered further below.
We are in the process of producing a new Local Plan which will replace the Core Strategy and saved policies. The emerging Local Plan is considered further below.
Copeland Core Strategy and DM Policies Archive
This page intends to provide archive information of the process to adoption of the Copeland Core Strategy and Development Management Policies DPD.
To view the adopted Local Plan, visit the Copeland Local Plan 2013-2028 Core Strategy and Development Management Policies webpage.