{"id":23960,"date":"2019-09-20T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2019-09-20T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:52:50","slug":"england-100-places-to-benefit-from-new-towns-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23960","title":{"rendered":"England: 100 places to benefit from new Towns Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23961\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/housing_200919_opengovernmentlicence30-300x200.png\" alt=\"housing\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Towns across England will work with the government to develop innovative regeneration plans.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<h3>Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government writes:<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a33.6 billion Towns Fund will support towns to build prosperous futures<\/li>\n<li>Towns across England will work with the government to develop innovative regeneration plans<\/li>\n<li>Town Deals at heart of the Prime Minister\u2019s commitment to levelling up our regions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 100 places invited to develop proposals for a new generation of multi-million-pound Town Deals have today (6 September 2019) been announced by Local Government Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP.\u00a0 The towns eligible for support from the \u00a33.6 billion Towns Fund include places with proud industrial and economic heritage but have not always benefitted from economic growth in the same way as more prosperous areas.\u00a0 Communities, businesses and local leaders will now join forces to draw up ambitious plans to transform their town\u2019s economic growth prospects with a focus on improved transport, broadband connectivity, skills and culture.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 45 places across the Northern Powerhouse and 30 places in the Midlands Engine are among the 100 pioneers of new Town Deals as part of the government\u2019s commitment to level up all regions by boosting productivity, skills and living standards.\u00a0 Local Government Secretary, Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, said:\u00a0 \u2018Ensuring that prosperity and opportunities are available to everyone in this country, not just those in London or our biggest cities, is at the heart of the mission of this government.\u00a0 We want to level-up our great towns, raising living standards and ensuring they can thrive with transformative investment in transport, technology, skills and culture.\u00a0 I will now work with local people from the 100 communities announced today to agree proposals to invest up to \u00a325 million in each place. I hope these deals will provide the investment and the impetus for long-term renewal ensuring each town can look to the future with a new optimism.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth, Rt Hon Jake Berry MP said: \u2018In July, the Prime Minister promised to level up 100 towns across the country, and today we\u2019re delivering that promise.\u00a0 The best answers for local people will come from local people, that\u2019s why we have listened to people living in these towns and will support them with a mega \u00a33.6 billion fund to drive jobs and economic growth.\u00a0 Five years on from the launch of the Northern Powerhouse, we are reaffirming our commitment to the people of the North so they have the support they need to be at the leading edge of a confident, global Britain when we leave the EU on 31 October.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement follows the Prime Minister\u2019s confirmation in July of an additional \u00a31.325 billion to support towns as part of a renewed vision to level up our regions, which took the total value of the Towns Fund to \u00a33.6 billion.\u00a0 The government will soon publish a prospectus to guide towns through the process and set eligibility criteria for funding.<\/p>\n<p>Once approved, new Town Deals will improve connectivity, provide vital social and cultural infrastructure and boost growth \u2013 with communities having a say on how the money is spent. Decisions on funding any proposals will be made in due course.\u00a0 The Town Deals Fund builds directly on the government\u2019s commitment to decentralising funding and decisions away from Whitehall and investing in the growth of local economies and devolving powers through ambitious City and Growth Deals, providing more than \u00a39 billion of funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships and introducing 8 metro mayors in England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/100-places-to-benefit-from-new-towns-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towns across England will work with the government to develop innovative regeneration plans. image: Open Government Licence v3.0 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government writes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23962,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions\/23962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}