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Cumberland Council will be carrying out carriageway resurfacing works on Scotby Road in Scotby, to help maintain the condition and safety of the local highway network.

Cumberland Council will carry out scheduled repair works to the side wall of the Wasdale Hall cattle grid between Monday 23 March and Wednesday 25 March.

Carlisle city centre is gearing up for the much anticipated return of the Carlisle International Market, an open air shopping and food experience that draws thousands of visitors each year. The open-air event will be held in Carlisle city centre between Thursday 2 and Monday 6 April.

Cumberland Council has successfully prosecuted an individual for abandoning a vehicle, resulting in fines and costs totalling £1,700.

Residents across Millom are being invited to help name the town’s brand-new leisure facility. A public vote has opened today (Monday 16 March) to decide what the landmark centre, which is set to open later this year as part of Millom Town Deal’s flagship Activating Community Health project, will be called.

Cumberland Council will begin carriageway resurfacing on the B5300 starting Monday 23 March. These works are part of the councils ongoing commitment to maintain and improve the local highway network.

Cumberland Council is advising residents and road users that the ongoing road improvement works on the A5086 Gote Brow, Cockermouth, have been delayed due to recent weather conditions.

Carlisle’s city centre will be filled with creativity, ambition and live entertainment when the Teenage Market returns on Saturday 28 March 2026.

Cumberland Council is advising residents that Carlisle Library will temporarily close from Monday 23 March as the final major stage of refurbishment works gets underway. The newly improved library is expected to reopen in mid-June 2026.

Cumberland Council and Westmorland & Furness Council are reminding landowners that the statutory window to correct mistaken registrations of common land and village greens will close in just over a year’s time - on 15 March 2027.