CARLISLE City Council are set to approve an application for a series of new accommodation to be erected in Scotby.

The site is an agricultural field adjacent to Broomfallen Road at the western end of Cumwhinton village.

Broomfallen Road abuts the site’s entire western boundary, which consists of two long sections of hedgerow either side of a field gate access. The section north of the existing field access is more substantial hedgerow than the section to the south of the access.

It ‘crests’ near the centre, falling gently to the south and north and a little steeper in the north-east corner, where it slopes downhill in a north-easterly direction.

The submissions indicate a potential layout including locations for 14 plots, an access road, woodland areas, attenuation area, structural landscaping (tree planting) and open spaces.

The layout would include a single service road which enters the site close to where a current field gate is situated, the road running first east then north to work with the contours of the land i.e. road position set to avoid highest area and to loosely follow a lower contour.

Of the 14 plots, nine would be self-build in accordance with self-build housing definitions and five plots would be market housing.