Carlisle heat network zone

Carlisle has no district heat network today. Its June 2025 report identifies the city centre, the Kingstown industrial area and the planned St Cuthbert's Garden Village as the strongest candidates. Cumberland Council, created in 2023, is the local authority now responsible.

1. September 2024

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   Listed among the 28 places in the government's heat network zoning pilot, which published its first outputs in September 2024.

   Source: Heat networks zoning pilot (GOV.UK)

Nine possible zones, three of them strategic: the City Centre, Kingstown and St Cuthbert's, where planning policy already encourages a network for the new garden village.

Candidate areas come from government-commissioned studies and council work. They are not legal boundaries. A zone’s boundary is fixed only when it is designated under the zoning regulations.

We have found no appointed or bidding developer for Carlisle.

No statutory zone developer can be appointed until a zone is designated. Partners appointed by councils before then are listed as development or delivery partners.

We have found no existing district-scale heat network in Carlisle.

• 2 Jun 2025Remaining 13 zone opportunity reports published
• 23 Sep 2024First zoning pilot outputs: heat network zone maps

1. Heat networks zoning pilot (updated 25 November 2025) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 25 November 2025
2. Heat network zone opportunity report: Carlisle (by Arcadis) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2 June 2025

Record last checked 8 November 2026.