The Northern Agenda: The £4.8bn fund that could make dreams come true in Bolton, Bradford, Blackburn and North Shields
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Here is today's Northern Agenda: By ROB PARSONS - August 15 2022 It's described by Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark as a way of "making a project that communities have been dreaming of for years a reality".
But the Government's £4.8bn flagship Levelling Up Fund (LUF) is - for many in the North - a far-from-perfect way of regenerating left-behind areas and helping them forge their own futures.
A total of £1.7bn was awarded to 105 projects in the first round and in recent weeks town halls who missed out the first time have been submitting bids in the second round of funding for town centres, transport links and local cultural assets.
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