The Caldew Riverside site is a 2.2 hectare brownfield site that we own and located within Carlisle city centre next to the River Caldew.
Allocated in the Carlisle Local Plan as a regeneration opportunity, the redevelopment of the site is one of our key priorities. A core element of the strategy for renewal of the city centre is to increase the resident population and due to its position and we consider the Caldew site to be an excellent location for a city centre living development.
The site is perfectly located for city centre living - within five minute walking distance of the city centre, the railway station and the new £78 million University of Cumbria campus that is to be created at the Citadels site.
Working with Homes England, we have produced an indicative masterplan for the site comprising of a mixture of apartments and townhouses. On the back of the masterplan, we have secured funding from the Brownfield Land Release Fund and are now undertaking a remediation and site preparation scheme to get the site development ready.
We will be launching an Expression of Interest process later in the year in order to secure a developer for the site.