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The places in Greater Manchester getting Levelling Up cash in latest government announcement
20.11.2023 - 14:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Four Greater Manchester regeneration projects will benefit from a £86m boost in the latest round of Levelling Up funding from the government. Bolton, Manchester, Tameside and Wigan are among the 55 successful schemes to be selected for a share of nearly £1bn.
Manchester's bid for £20m to kickstart the redevelopment of Wythenshawe town centre was rejected earlier this year, just hours after plans for the Civic were approved. But the plans to transform the 1970s shopping centre have now been backed by the government.
Regeneration schemes in Bolton, Denton and Leigh town centres have also been selected in the latest round. All of these bids 'narrowly missed' out on funding earlier this year, but were assessed as 'high-quality and able to deliver quickly', the government says.
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Since 2021, £3.8bn has been awarded to 216 projects in the first two rounds of the Levelling Up Fund. In total, nearly £1bn has been allocated to 55 projects across the country in this third round of funding, with £128m awarded to projects in the North West.
Levelling up Secretary Michael Gove said: "Levelling up means delivering local people’s priorities and bringing transformational change in communities that have, for too long, been overlooked and undervalued. Today we are backing 55 projects across the UK with £1bn to create new jobs and opportunities, power economic growth, and revitalise local areas.
"This funding sits alongside our wider initiatives to spread growth, through devolving more money and power out of Westminster to towns and cities, putting in place bespoke interventions to places that need it most, and our
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