Reporting potholes
You can report a pothole on the highway to Westmoreland and Furness Council with the reporting tool on the council website.
Illegal motor vehicles – guidelines for incident reporting
When reporting the incident to the police follow these points where you can.
Telephone 101
It should be reported to the police on 101 as soon as possible, ideally from on-site with a mobile phone. This increases the chance of an officer reaching the incident.
Please make sure that you clearly explain the offence that you believe is being committed by the off-road drivers, vehicle use, damage to land, if it’s SSSI land and give as much detail of the location as possible, use grid reference or W3W if known.
If you know who owns the land please pass this on with as much detail as you have, please do also report details, registrations and locations of vans, vehicles with trailers that may have brought off road bikes to areas.
Do not ask for a particular officer for that area, even though he or she may be known to you. You can ask for the incident to be brought to the attention of the Rural Crime Team, Op Lantern.
It is only through the recording of incidents that they will appear on Cumbria Police crime statistics. So always ask for the incident to be logged and ask for the log number.
Report via the Cumbria Police website
Email Cumbria Police
Email 101emails@cumbria.police.uk to report illegal motor vehicles.
- time and date
- location
- grid ref/W3W
- footpath/bridleway/other than a road
- direction of travel.
- vehicle type (4×4/motorbike)
- number of vehicles
- vehicle registrations if present
- make/models (if known)
- vehicle colour and any distinguishing features/markings
- colour of crash helmet(s) and riders clothing
- contact details of the reporting person.
Pictures
In no way essential or expected and only if safe for you to do so.
For example
At 16:53 on 12 March 2026 I was on the footpath at Riggs Wood east side of Coniston (W3W: Madeup.phone.locked) when a single electric motorbike passed me heading north east into the woods. The bike was yellow and not displaying a number plate and the rider was wearing a pink shirt, purple trousers, white trainers and a full face helmet tiger stripe effect helmet. Pictures attached.
Lowick lengthsman
Spotted a problem for our parish lengthsman? Contact the Parish Clerk with as much detail as possible.
Before and after a visit from the lengthsman
Photographs by Archie Workman.