Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Bosses in Tameside are to bid for up to £40 million of government cash to ‘level up’ the town centres in Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge.
As part of the budget announced in March, the government has pledged £4.8 billion of ‘levelling up funding’ to be spent in the years up to 2024-25.
The purpose of the fund is committed to a ‘holistic, place based approach to funding projects and programmes across the country’, according to council documents.
It mainly focuses on transport investments, regeneration and town centre investment and cultural investment. Following initial discussions with the three Tameside MPs, chiefs agreed that a bid for the constituency of
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