Second Call for Sites
Westmorland and Furness Council are inviting submissions for the second Call for Sites as part of the preparations for a new Local Plan. We are seeking a wide range of land development opportunities that could help meet future development needs across Westmorland and Furness.
This is your chance to suggest sites for different types of development, from housing and employment to community and local green space.
Why we’re running a Second Call for Sites
We are launching a second Call for Sites to:
- Increase the range of land available for development across the local authority area.
- Give landowners, agents, and communities another chance to submit land.
- Make sure the Local Plan is backed by strong evidence and includes a wide mix of potential development sites.
What types of sites can be submitted?
We welcome land submissions for the following uses:
- Housing
- Employment
- Mixed use sites
- Waste
- Minerals
- Retail
- Leisure
- Open space / cummunity use / gree space
- Local green space
- Health facilities
- Transport infrastructure
- Habitat creation / nature recovery
- Allotments
- Education facilities
- Burial grounds
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pitches and Travelling Showpeople plots
If you submitted a site during the first Call for Sites in 2024, you do not need to resubmit your site through the Second Call for Sites. You can view previously submitted sites on our Interactive Map here.
Site Size Threshold
There are site size thresholds for particular categories of sites:
- Housing sites - must be 0.2ha or larger, or able to accommodate 5 or more dwellings.
- Employment sites - must be 0.25ha or larger, or capable of providing at least 500 sqm of employment floor space.
- All other uses - no minimum size threshold.
- Housing sites within the National Landscape - no minimum threshold as these sites are expected to be smaller.
How to submit a site
We are collecting sites via our online platform, PlaceMaker. You will be given a choice of four forms to choose from. Please choose the development type that you wish to put your site forward for. The choices are:
- Housing, employment or any other land use - Use this form to submit land for potential housing, employment development, or any other proposed land uses listed in the section ‘What types of sites can be submitted’, above.
- Local Green Space site - Use this form to nominate an area you believe should be designated and protected as a Local Green Space. A Local Green Space is typically close to the community it serves; is demonstrably special (e.g. because of its beauty, tranquillity, recreational vale, historical significance or biodiversity); is local in scale (e.g. not an extensive tract of land); and there is an intention to protect it for the long term.
- Minerals site - use this form to submit land that you propose for waste related uses, e.g. waste management or processing facilities.
- Waste site - Use this form to propose land for minerals extraction or related minerals development.
Submit a site via our online platform
The second Call for Sites will be open from 28 November 2025 and will run until 20 February 2026.
Submitted a Site in the First Call for Sites? – Check the Current Stage
We are currently carrying out constraints assessments on all first-round sites. These will help the Council to understand each site’s opportunities and limitations. The constraints outcomes are expected to be published in December 2025.
Future updates on the first Call for Sites (2024) assessments will be published here.