Regeneration

Projects in Allerdale are a priority to regenerate the region:

Workington Town Centre:
- Re-establish the town as a major shopping destination
- Widen the town's retail catchment area
- Create a development which co-exists with and improves the existing town centre
- Attract quality high-street retailers to the town
- Improve the environment of the town centre
- Act as a catalyst for future economic growth
- Provide opportunities for job creation
- Improve long term prosperity

Derwent Forest
Proposals have been made for the former Royal Navy armament disposal facility at Broughton Moor (the largest brownfield site in the north-west) to be turned into a premier leisure destination.

AIMS:
- Economic Benefits through raising the profile of West Cumbria at regional and national level; attracting inward investment to the area, creating a tourism magnet between the Lake District and the Coast; creating jobs and training opportunities.
- Environmental Benefits through the removal of dereliction, maintenance of habitats and biodiversity, developing sustainable environmental enterprises.
- Community Benefits by ensuring that economic and environmental benefits to West Cumbria impact positively on local communities.

The Synoptic

For the synoptic unit, I am trying to find useful resources about Cumbria and related issues, so watch this space for anything that I may find that might be useful.

Following this link displays a colour copy of the resource booklet, which might be useful especially for the chloropleth maps for instance.

These websites are recommended for further research:

• visitcumbria.com - an extremely comprehensive site but you'd better get reading as there are over 1000 pages!! Much of the information is tourist-orientated, but some links are well worth a look, especially the introduction for general background info.


• westlakesrenaissance.co.uk is particularly useful as the West Lakes Renaissance features in figures 6 and 9. The urban regeneration company is helping the economic revival of Furness and West Cumbria. Over the next 10 years £200 million will be invested into a series of projects, and used to create 5,000 new jobs, encourage substantial private sector investment and open up new opportunities for businesses


• cumbria-investment.co.uk has some really useful information including some key facts on the regions and industries (applicable to figure 2) the workforce and education (applicable to figure 5b) transport and communications.