THE development of St Cuthbert’s Garden Village - an ambitious and unique housing and economic development scheme for Carlisle - will take another important step forward with a further stage of public consultation.

The garden village scheme will enable Carlisle to continue to grow in a planned way across the coming decades.

It will make the most of opportunities to build innovative, mixed-use, self-sufficient communities equally well-connected to each other and the city.

The first consultation on the second stage of masterplanning will start on Monday and will run for six weeks. The outcome of this next phase of work will be a draft masterplan.

Three options have been developed by Arup, a multi-national planning and design services consultancy, working on behalf of Carlisle City Council.

The city council is seeking public views on each option, but the final version may be an amalgamation of the different options.

The council is keen to stress that it is not asking the public to choose one option.

Public consultation drop in events will be held on: Saturday, September 7 from 10am to 5pm, in Carlisle city centre; Tuesday, September 10 from 10am to 8pm, Carlisle Racecourse; Tuesday, September 24 from 1pm to 8pm, Cummersdale Village Hall; Wednesday, September 25 from 1pm to 8pm at Creighton Rugby Club; Friday, October 4 from 10am to 5pm in The Lanes Shopping Centre; Wednesday, October 9 from 10am to 8pm, Carlisle Racecourse. Visit www.stcuthbertsgv.co.uk

The deadline is October 14.