Planning and Sustainability

• Reduce the county council’s and Cumbria’s contribution to climate change and plan for adaptation 
• Improve waste management and minimise waste
• Protect and enhance the environment including the built environment, and improve local biodiversity
• Support the provision of balanced housing markets and more affordable homes 
• Influence policy and action on radioactive waste management and nuclear energy generation to benefit and protect Cumbria     

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Review social, economic and environment matters affecting Cumbria; provide strategic policy input into major developments, the Regional Spatial Strategy, Sub-regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Frameworks; provide corporate responses to category 1 applications; and contribute to Statutory Annual Monitoring Reports. Find out more

Prepare, monitor and review minerals and waste planning policy to ensure an adequate and sustainable supply of sites. Find out more

Assess planning proposals for mines, quarries and waste management facilities and monitor to ensure compliance at sites. Planning Authority for county council developments. Provide specialist advice on strategic planning applications, including windfarms. Find out more

In partnership protect and enhance the historic environment, biodiversity, landscape, countryside and coasts of Cumbria. Maintain the Register of Common Land and Town or Village Greens in Cumbria. Find out more

Work with partners to secure economic benefits from nuclear activity including new nuclear power generation in Cumbria. Seek the provision of appropriate sites for radioactive waste treatment and disposal facilities. Find out more

Lead the council’s drive to make its use of resources more efficient and reduce its own and Cumbria’s carbon emissions and plan to adapt to a changing climate. Find out more

As Waste Disposal Authority, deliver effective waste management services; manage 14 household waste recycling centres; provide residents, schools and other organisations with advice on how to reduce, reuse and recycle. Find out more