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Cockermouth is well known for its specialty
shops and many art galleries. Pictured
is the Jennings Brewery nestling beneath the Castle walls.
The Tourist
Information Centre is now located in the Library Community Hub:
Telephone 01900 822634.
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Town Escapes out of town B&M mega store. The town has been spared an out of town centre Mega store. Allerdale
councillors over ruled their own planning officers and voted 7-4
to refuse permission for a B&M superstore in Low Road.
Councillor Nicky Cockburn successfully called for refusal on the
grounds that the site was no 3 in the top ten of potential employment
or office development sites in Allerdale and should be pro-actively
promoted for full time employment options.
For some reason the planning officers had recommended ignoring the
council's own policy local plan documents: namely that the land
is not zoned for retail; the land is in high risk flood risk Zone
2; the threat to the Heritage of the Fitz and that the council should
protect the future of town centre shops.
The Town Council, Civic Trust and Chamber of Trade and Allerdale
ward councillor Joan Ellis opposed the plans.
See T&S reader poll rersults.
But the applicants told the meeting they would now be apealing to
a government planning inspector as a last attempt to gain consent.
Report
in Times&Star
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| Diary Dates 2019
Malcolm Wilson Rally – Saturday 9th March 20119 –Scrutineering
will be on the Main Street in Cockermouth under floodlights with
the support of the Town Council and Allerdale Borough Council. More....
Daffodil Day – at All Saints Church 6th April 2019
Cockermouth Spring Fair – 27th May 2019
Cockermouth Carnival – 15th June 2019
Cockermouth Live – Friday 28th – Sunday 30th June 2019 Cockermouth
Show – 3rd August 2019 – The Fitz
The Touch a Truck Show..Sunday
22nd Sept
Taste Cumbria is 28/29 Sept and the Taste Christmas market is 7/8
December.
Cockermouth Firework Display – Sunday 3rd November 2019 – 5.15pm
(Fireworks let off 6pm) Memorial Gardens Cockermouth Christmas Lights
switch-on - Sunday 17th November 2019 –
New
town centre map (Please note car parking
charges have risen since map's preparation.)
See
live river levels online....
More events
in Cockermouth
Historic data
on past Cockermouth floods.
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Tourist Information Centre
& Library
The Tourist
Information Centre is now located in the Library Community Hub:
Telephone 01900 822634.
Opening times are: weekdays 10am to 4pm, Bank Holds and Saturdays
10am to 2pm.
Cockermouth library is now a one stop
shop Community Hub...
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Cockermouth is noted for its specialist
shops.
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