Residents are invited to a drop-in on Wednesday 6 May to hear about United Utilities' plans to improve water quality in Windermere through a £200m, four-year catchment programme to cut storm overflow operations and raise the standard of treated wastewater.

The company will outline proposals for works at Hawkshead's pumping station and wastewater treatment works, with planning applications due to be submitted to the local authority in the coming months.

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Subject to consent, both sites would be expanded to enable the upgrades. At the pumping station, a new 29-metre-diameter storage tank would be constructed below ground, providing capacity of around 3,000 cubic metres.

At the wastewater treatment works, new technology would be installed to further improve the quality of treated wastewater returned to the environment.

The drop-in will take place at Hawkshead Village Hall between 4pm and 7pm.

The plans form part of United Utilities' wider programme across the North West, where it is investing more than £13bn in the largest upgrade of water and wastewater infrastructure in a century, aiming to protect and enhance over 500km of rivers, lakes and bathing waters while safeguarding drinking water supplies for millions of customers.