Category Archives: Current Projects

Dalton Castle Lights

After many years of looking at this project but not being able to obtain the necessary permissions the Town council have now completed the floodlighting of Dalton Castle. Dalton residents are quite rightly very proud of the Castle, after all very few towns can claim that they have a complete 13th century Pele tower or one in such a prominent position. Our thanks go to the National Trust for permission to place the equipment and lights in the Castle grounds and to Friends of Dalton Castle for supporting our project. The lights will normally be set on white but the colour can be changed for commemorate national days or events. On 27th January the lights were purple to commemorate the National Holocaust Memorial Day and on 6th June they will again be purple to mark D Day 80. Any requests for colour changes should be made to the Town Hall on Station Road.

We have experienced some teething problems with the lights which seem to want to rotate through the complete colour scale available of their own accord but we hope this will be corrected soon.

Rusland Drive Community Area

The Town Council have now put the finishing touches to the installation of a pocket park at Rusland Drive. The land was previously a play area for very young children but had aging equipment which had been assessed as having issues and needed replacing. After a consultation with residents the Town Council had the area… Continue Reading

Floodlighting of Dalton Castle

In 2022 the Town Council identified floodlighting the Castle as one of their projects for the 2023/2024 year. After working with the National Trust to secure permission to illuminate our oldest heritage asset, work is about to start on the installation of LED lights, it is expected that the project will be complete by the… Continue Reading

About us

Dalton is the ancient and historic capital of Furness and has approximately 8,000 residents at the current time. Ideally located less than thirty miles from the Lake District and close to the Irish Sea coast and nature reserves, Dalton is home to one of the Counties largest tourist attractions, South Lakes Wild Animal Park.