Cumbria Local Nature Partnership, which is hosted by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, has been awarded a grant from the Government’s £40 million second round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, a multi-million pound boost for green jobs and nature recovery.
Cumbria County Council has been commended for its hard work and dedication to pilot and produce prototype Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) as part of government plans to recover nature on an England-wide scale.
As part of Cumbria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies from health, Local Authorities, care, emergency services, military, education and industry have come together to create a network of ‘Community Recovery Centres’.
Cumbria County Council’s Infrastructure Recovery Programme (IRP) team scooped a hat-trick at the prestigious 12th annual North West Regional Construction Awards held on Friday 6 July in Manchester.
Bell Bridge was officially reopened today by Cllr John Bell, Chairman of Cumbria County Council, restoring a key link between the communities of Sebergham and Welton.
This week Cumbria County Council has announced the first, in a series of contracts that will see a total of £25million invested to help repair damaged roads and bridges across the county this year.
Cumbria County Council can announce that, following close working with the Department for Transport, Cumbria has been awarded an additional £82.6 million to fund essential repairs following the storm damage of 2015/16 from Storms Desmond and Eva.
Yesterday Leader of Cumbria County Council Stewart Young, Leader of the Opposition James Airey and council Chief Executive Diane Wood held meetings with Ministers in London to discuss the funding needed to repair damage caused by December’s floods.
