Neil Tague
Dockside sites, along with land at Carlisle Lake District Airport, are central to the Heart of the UK Freeport plan advanced by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership.
The bid, submitted last Friday along with those of other locations competing to be one of the winning group of up to ten, has been developed by the LEP in partnership with the ports, airport, and four local authorities: Allerdale, Barrow, Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council. Local MPs are also backing the bid.
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Cumbria has set out the strengths of its bid as being at both multi-centre and multi-modal; and a UK- rather than England-centric one, sharing a land border with Scotland and sea routes to both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.