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UNCOVERED: Levelling up fund | History Defined

Government accused of ‘economic blackmail’ as NI misses out on Levelling Up cash

Northern Ireland projects were awarded £120 million in the first two rounds of the fund.

The Independent UK

Councils scale back levelling up ambitions as costs rise

Councils have spent only around 15% of the money awarded in the first round of the Levelling Up Fund in 2021.

The Independent UK

Grainger Market's £9m Levelling Up transformation should start in autumn, council confirms

As the saga of the market's roof renovation draws to a long-awaited close, there are more upgrades in the works

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Budget 2023: West Midlands business leaders react

Planned new investment zone and childcare help welcomed but others left disappointed by unspent Levelling Up fund

Birmingham Post

Ben Bradley says Levelling Up Fund 'inefficient' after £830,000 cost revealed

Nottinghamshire has received a collective £95million across both rounds of the Levelling Up Fund

Nottingham Post

‘Bent’ system cost Merseyside town thousands when asking for Government help

Sefton Council has had to self fund its most recent and unsuccessful Levelling Up Fund bids while other Merseyside areas received money to prepare applications

Liverpool Echo

Nottingham City Council spent £250,000 on failed Levelling Up bids

The Government's Levelling Up Fund has been dubbed "deeply flawed" as figures show the amount Nottingham City Council spent on it last year.

Nottingham Post

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Significant roadworks to commence in Glengormley next week

The upgrades form part of £3.9m funding from the UK Government's Levelling Up Fund

Belfast Live

Glasgow MPs fuming after Levelling Up minister suggests that government intervened over round two funding

Glasgow North East MP Anne McLaughlin called the process "a scandal".

Daily Record

Hope for 'heart of Bootle' after £1.5m Strand investment announced

"It is the heart of Bootle and it is always changing, the £1.5 million is welcome but we would like more as everybody would"

Liverpool Echo

Dragons' Den style funding bid blasted as North Ayrshire loses out

The area was not successful in the latest round of Levelling Up funding.

Daily Record

Oldham Coliseum will go dark due to 100% Arts Council England funding cut

All events from late March cancelled at the theatre, which is in a priority location for the government’s Levelling Up fund

The Guardian - UK

Interactive map reveals the parts of Scotland ignored by Tory Levelling Up cash

THE UK Government has been slated for disregarding Levelling Up bids from Scotland’s poorest areas in the latest round of funding.

The National (Scotland)

The 'levelling up' bidding process wastes time and money – here's how to improve it

The UK government recently announced the results of the second round of successful bids for for its £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund. This money is provided to local governments with the ambitious (but pretty unspecific) aim of “creating opportunities for everyone” by addressing economic and social imbalances across the UK.

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Dismay as one of Northumberland's most deprived towns misses out on levelling up funding

Ashington saw a £16 million bid turned down which would have seen the development of a cinema and restaurants as well as upgrading Wansbeck Square and Portland Park

Daily Record

Dalbeattie's Rocks and Wheels project receives £5.4 million boost from Levelling Up Fund

The funding means Dalbeattie Community Initiative can push on with their plans for the former Dalbeattie Primary School

Birmingham Post

£2.4m Hull city centre Burton building transformation gets big backing as plans passed

Upper floors of prominent Art Deco building to be converted for office use as retail or restaurant eyed for street level

Wales Online

Llanelli missed out on two Levelling Up Fund bids in latest round

Neither were successful and Carmarthenshire Council has asked the UK Government for feedback

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World's oldest railway station to be given makeover after £20m Levelling Up fund secured

Plans for the station include disabled access and a café

Daily Record

Half of the 10 poorest areas in Scotland received no Levelling Up funding from the UK Government

SNP MP Chris Stephens accused the UK Government of "pork barrel politics at its worst".

Chronicle Live

Mayors demand end to levelling up 'beauty pageant' forcing Northern councils to compete for cash

Only 80 bids from 370 across England were successful in the second round of the Levelling Up Fund, and only six out of 22 in the North East were awarded any cash

Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire town will be ‘put on the map’ through £16.5m funding

The town will benefit from major investment after the Government announced it has been selected to receive £16.5m from the Levelling Up Fund.

Nottingham Post

Broxtowe Borough Council leader to stay in post after area 'abandoned' by Government fund

Broxtowe Borough Council Leader Milan Radulovic had said he was considering his position after Eastwood failed to secure any money from the Levelling Up Fund.

Chronicle Live

Gateshead leisure centres facing closure threat get three-month reprieve for rescue talks

Gateshead Leisure Centre and Birtley Swimming Centre had been earmarked for closure at the end of March, but council leaders have agreed to press pause on the plans

Daily Record

Perth and Kinross councillor brands Levelling Up funding snub for county a "disgrace"

The Fair City missed out on a share of the £2.1 billion in the latest round of the UK Government's Levelling Up programme

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