Last updated at 11:44, Thursday, 19 July 2012

Homes plans set to be approved

PLANS for 16 new affordable homes at the former White School site at Kells, Whitehaven, look set to be approved.

Copeland Council awarded outline permission to the firm, Kells Development Company, to build 74 homes on the site in 2010; this application forms the ‘affordable homes’ part of that same development.

Members of Copeland’s planning panel, who visited the site to assess its suitability, were yesterday expected to give them the go-ahead.

The homes will be built in four blocks of four terraced houses in a mix of two and three-bedroom properties.

Two letters of protest were sent to Copeland Council from residents of South Row, who expressed concerns about volumes of traffic and the general disturbance they feel the development would create.

Man fined for dog not on lead

A WHITEHAVEN man has been fined £200 for not keeping his dog on a lead at Trinity Gardens.

The case against William Young, 68, of Scotch Street, was proved in absence at West Cumbria Courthouse last week.

Magistrates ordered him to pay £100 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

Costly dropped cigarette

DROPPING a cigarette outside Whitehaven’s Copeland Homes offices has landed a woman with a £55 fine.

The case against Pauline Harrison, 34, of Beck Green, Egremont, was proved in her absence at West Cumbria Courthouse last week.

Magistrates have imposed costs of £100 with a £15 victim surcharge.

First published at 11:11, Thursday, 19 July 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk