Planning CumbriaWhat is the Structure Plan?
As a statutory consultee, Cumbria County Council and the Lake District National Park Authority urged the Government and North West Regional Assembly to retain a number of locally defined spatial planning policies contained in the adopted Cumbria and Lake District Joint Structure Plan (2006). The North West of England Plan has taken this on board and 23 out of the requested 35 policies put forward by the County Council have been retained in the new plan are listed below. The Council continues to implement these policies.
- ST4 - Major Development Proposals
- ST5 - New Development
- EM13 - Employment Land Provision
- EM14 - Development of Employment Land for other Purposes
- EM16 - Tourism
- H19 - Affordable Housing outside the Lake District National Park
- H20 - Housing in the Lake District National Park
- H21 - Allocation of Sites within the Lake District National Park for Social Housing
- H22 - Exception Sites within the Lake District National Park
- T29 - Safeguarding future transport schemes
- T30 - Transport Assessments
- T31 - Travel Plans
- T33 - Telecommunications
- E35 - Areas and Features of nature conservation interests other than those of national and international importance
- E37 - Landscape Character
- E38 - Historic Environment
- R44 - Renewable Energy outside the Lake District National Park and AONBs
- R45 - Renewable Energy in the Lake District National Park and AONBs
- R47 - Mineral Extraction outside the Lake District National Park and AONBs
- R48 - Mineral Extraction in the Lake District National Park and AONBs
- R49 - Waste recovery facilities
- R50 - Thermal treatment and energy recovery from waste plants
- R51 - Residual waste and landfill
