Welcome to the Borrowdale Parish Council website.

The Parish Council represent the views of residents of the parish to local, regional and national organisations on a range of issues. Parish Councils are consulted on planning applications and have an opportunity to comment.

The Parish includes the villages of Stonethwaite, Seatoller, Rosthwaite & Grange, in addition there are the hamlets of Seathwaite and Watendlath. The Parish includes most of the Lake of Derwentwater. The Parish extends to the outskirts of the market town of Keswick.

Inappropriate Parking/Obstructive Parking/Highways issues

If you are visiting this website due to concerns about inappropriate parking/obstructive parking/bad parking/vehicles parking on double yellow lines etc, we would strongly encourage you to report the issues to the appropriate authorities (details below).  The authorities that deal with these items work on number of complaints raised so the more reports of issues that are made the greater the chance there is of action.

• Trudy Harrison (MP) trudy.harrison.mp@parliament.uk
• Cumberland Council (Highways Authority) via the Highways Information Management System  (Submit it as a general enquiry).
• Markus Campbell Savours (Cumberland Councillor for the area) Markus.Campbell-Savours@cumberland.gov.uk

Parish Council Elections 2023

Every four years all Parish Councillors go through the election process the next cycle is due in May 2023

The Borrowdale Parish Council Election for the 4th May 2023 has been declared as uncontested, for further information you can view the Borrowdale PC Notice of Uncontested Election May 23

Parish Council Meetings

In line with government guidance if as a member of the public you wish to submit a question for a meeting it will need to be with the Clerk via email by 17:00 on the Monday prior to the meeting. Questions received after this time & date will be held until the next meeting. Members of the public are welcome to attend and listen to the Council meetings, dates are given below.

Future meeting dates:

All meetings in the Herdwick Suite unless otherwise specified:

22nd May 2024 19:00 Borrowdale Institute

31st July 2024 19:00 Borrowdale Institute

25th September 2024 19:00 Borrowdale Institute

27th November 2024 19:00 Borrowdale Institute

29th January 2025 19:00 Borrowdale Institute

For any queries or further information please contact the Clerk, Ms Becx Carter on clerk@borrowdale.org.uk or 07786678283