Eleven Midlands areas in line for government funding boost
A £5bn scheme aimed at kickstarting regeneration projects in some of the country’s most deprived areas has been expanded across the Midlands, the government has announced.
The central government-backed Pride in Place fund is aimed at backing small-scale, community-led projects with up to £20m of funding, spread out over ten years.
More than 200 areas are now covered by the initiative, which the government says backs “locally-led solutions shaped by the people who know their areas best, not imposed from Whitehall” – with a further ten neighbourhoods added to the list today.
Earlier this year, Walsall Council announced a consultation on plans to spend £1.5m for the next two years, one of twelve Midlands councils in line to receive direct support from the scheme, as confirmed by government ministers in December.
“These new neighbourhoods are joining a movement that is bringing people closer together, and this government is backing them to do it,” said communities secretary Steve Reed.
The following areas were confirmed for inclusion in the scheme by the government today:
- Handsworth West (Birmingham)
- Cannock North (Cannock Chase)
- New Normanton (Derby)
- Matson & Robinswood (Gloucester)
- Mayfield (Rushmoor)
- Tividale (Sandwell)
- Bradeley & Chell Heath (Stoke-on-Trent)
- Brownhills (Walsall)
- Waterloo Road (Wolverhampton)
- Tile Hill (Coventry)
- Hillfields (Coventry)
