Community Strategy for Cumbria

The Community Strategy puts in place high aspirations for the county and aims to provide focus for making Cumbria the best place to be born and grow up. We are working towards this vision through focused activity around 5 themes:   

• Safe, strong and inclusive communities
• Health and well-being throughout life 
• A sustainable and prosperous economy  
• Effective connections between people and places  
• World class environmental quality

The Cumbria Community Strategy builds on the existing 5 Community Strategies that are in place in each District throughout the county:

 District Sustainable Community Strategies 

The Community Strategy is part of a larger suite of documents, including the Sub- Regional Spatial Strategy, which provides a long term spatial vision and expresses those parts of the Community Strategy that relate to the use and development of land.   The Strategy provides the policy framework to support 3 spatial objectives:

• To reduce the dependency for high level services/jobs on towns outside Cumbria
• To increase the viability and complementary nature of key towns and villages throughout Cumbria
• To develop and maintain high quality modern and integrated transport networks

Links to the suite of documents outlined above can be found on the right hand side of this page. 

Further information

If you require further information please contact the CSP Team at csp@cumbriacc.gov.uk or on 01768 812311.