Keswick Town Council submitted an application to designate Keswick Civil Parish plus an area of Underskiddaw Civil Parish to the south of the A66 as a neighbourhood area on 10 July 2017. A formal consultation ran for a period of six weeks, from Monday 17 July to 4pm Monday 28 August 2017. The proposed neighbourhood plan area was formally approved by the Lake District National Park Authority on 18 September 2017. A working group has been established to prepare a neighbourhood plan.
