Delivering new homes

We are ambitious about the role of housing with focused local plans and a determination to deliver. Our adopted local plans each responded with ambitious growth strategies designed to address local demographic trends and support long term economic growth.

These plans have delivered excellent results. The majority of the sites allocated in both the Allerdale and Carlisle Local Plans have now been taken up which demonstrates the strong and sustained demand for housing within the region.

We have a significant pipeline of live planning applications with the capacity to deliver over 3,000 homes. The scale of applications pending further reinforces the evidence of the sustained demand for new homes, which is not showing signs of dissipating.

As a result of the homes delivered in recent years, we are now showing a net growth in working age residents which doubled after covid. As well as delivering the right types of homes, this can be attributed to households now having greater flexibility in where they ‘choose’ to live and work versus where they ‘need’ to live and work. Cumberland provides that wider lifestyle offer and major growth projects like St Cuthbert’s Garden Village will ensure this positive trend continues.