Ashton Town Hall is to be restored after Tameside council won nearly £20m in ‘levelling up’ cash from the government. The funding will also be used to redevelop the former Ashton interchange site and bring new homes, shops and offices into the town, as well as walking and cycling improvements.
However the highest profile project will be the restoration of Ashton Town Hall, which opened in 1840, but which has been closed, along with the Museum of the Manchester Regiment, since 2015. READ MORE: The ‘world-famous Burnley market’: Rishi Sunak confuses Burnley and Bury during awkward BBC interview Bosses had planned to reopen it as part of phase three of the Vision Tameside project, but the collapse of construction firm Carillion in 2018 has
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