MAJOR changes to Cumbria's parliamentary landscape have been announced, as the Boundary Commission reveals final proposals for the 2023 boundary review.

The changes across the county will come into force next year, once a final public consultation has taken place.

All of the Cumbrian constituencies have been changed from initial proposals, release in June last year - with the exemption of Carlisle which will remain the same as initially proposed.

None of the six constituencies currently in Cumbria have electorates that are within the permitted range, so none can be retained unchanged, the Commission says - there is also a need for the number of constituencies wholly in the county to be reduced to five.

The proposals for the five new constituencies in the county are:

Carlisle - will run from the western edge of the city and take in an area north, almost as far as Kielder Water.

Whitehaven and Workington - this constituency will take everything from South of the river Derwent in Workington and all all of the current Copeland constituency, with the exception of Black Combe and Scafell, and Millom.

Penrith and the Solway - this constituency will run from Seaton in Workington and encompass Maryport, Cockermouth, the Solway and Eden with the northern point being Alston Moor.

In addition, there are Barrow and Furness and Westmorland and Lonsdale.

The Boundary Commission said that they received over 900 representations from across Cumbria, the vast majority of which objected to the initial proposals.

Many of these representations objected to the entire initial proposals for Cumbria, rather than to specific constituencies.

The report said: "We consider that our revised proposals for Cumbria accurately reflect the significant numbers and nature of the representations and evidence received, with a demonstrable improvement to community ties in the South Lakeland area in particular.

"While our revised proposals for Cumbria may initially seem to be worse than the initial proposals with regard to local government boundaries, we are conscious of the incoming unitary authorities for Cumbria, which will replace the current authorities."

After this final consultation has closed on December 5 the Commission will analyse the responses and form its final recommendations.

These will be submitted to Parliament by July 1 2023.

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