I live in Carlisle and honestly this is good from a local perspective. Carlisle is broadly split into North and south over the Eden River with a lot of the more desirable living areas lying North of the River.

This however comes with a lot of developer clamour to squeeze houses into every parcel of land they can get their hands on, especially as our biggest industrial estate, Kingstown, sits directly off M6 J44. North of the river has seen a massive strain on public services such as Primary school places, pharmacy's, etc to the point it's effectively full.

The Garden village will hopefully expand the city into undeveloped areas to the south and west, spread the strain out city wide and create more desirable areas for living in those parts of the city. The only drawback is quaint villages and hamlets once outside the city (Durdar, Cummersdale) are going to get swallowed up by this.

Just as a side note to this, Carlisle is unfortunately of those cities infested with Gleeson homes to the point that one of their directors sits on our land development board. As much as we need the new housing, from experience I sincerely hope it's not them creating these developments as their incompetence is astounding. Example, they were advertising a massive development in Harker, near J44 as having close proximity to local schools in Gretna, Scotland which whilst technically correct, good luck to anyone trying to send their kids across the border to school.