Levelling Up Fund

Huge Courts & Tribunals Service update on stalled plan for new multi-million pound Blackpool magistrates court

Breaking Update on stalled plan for new multi-million pound magistrates court

Building work takes place on the site for the new Multiversity. Photo: Lucinda Herbert

Update on Blackpool's £65m Multiversity project amid road closures

An artists impression of how the Multiversity in Blackpool will look

Council given go ahead to clear site for construction of multiversity

An artists impression of how the Multiversity in Blackpool will look

Delays could put £65m multiversity at risk, public inquiry is told

The area fronting Cookson Street which needs to be cleared

£65m Blackpool multiversity moving closer to start date

Artist's impression of the new courthouse

Warning of delays to Blackpool Magistrates Court project

The former Post Office building on Abingdon Street, Blackpool

Tory leader's warning over risk to funding for resort regeneration

Artist's impressions showing plans for the former Abingdon Street Post Office

Fears revealed that time may be running out for town centre plans

Busy at the Community Stitch Table.

Gardening and Well Being Festival at Park View 4U, Lytham proves a big hit

New traffic light technology will react to give priority to buses on some Lancashire routes

Lancashire buses set to 'talk to traffic lights'

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves with Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Paymaster General

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledges action on visit to Blackpool

Investment is aimed at easing town centre congestion

£17m proposals to improve traffic flow in Blackpool town centre

Updated artist’s impression of the proposed Indigo Hotel (credit Franklin Ellis Architects)

Revised plans revealed to transform former Abingdon Street Post Office

Heritage guardians welcome Levelling Up Funding for historic Blackpool landmark

The former Abingdon Street Post Office building

Major boost for project to redevelop the former Post Office into an Indigo Hotel

The aim of the bid was to help kick-start the regeneration of St Annes town centre and Promenade Gardens

MP Menzies backing £13.1m St Annes regeneration cash bid
Fylde MP Mark Menzies has backed St Annes to bounce back after a multi-million pound bid for regeneration funding was unsuccessful.
Tony Durkin

Cookson Street, looking towards the Talbot Gateway.

Mixed reaction as Government awards £40m for Blackpool "multiversity"

Blackpool's "multiversity" has moved a step closer

Blackpool succeeds in £40m bid for new university, but hotel plan rejected

The aim is for St Annes Square to be transformed, with more space for businesses to spill out, a new flexible space for markets and events, and improved pedestrian and cycling links from the rail station to the seafront.

These are the sites key to the St Annes regeneration masterplan

Artist's impression of the multiversity

First steps agreed towards Blackpool's £65m multiversity

Some of the buildings on Cookson Street which could be redeveloped

Blackpool town centre set for transformation as £65m multiversity site revealed

St Annes town centre

£13m bid to help revitalise St Annes town centre and sea front

An artist's impression of the proposed multiversity

Blackpool seeking £63m towards multiversity, hotel and town centre traffic plan

County Cllr Aidy Riggott

New Lancashire levelling up fund will "kick-start" ambitious projects

The multiversity would be the latest investment in the town centre where regeneration also includes a new Holiday Inn (artist's impression)

£85m Blackpool university campus plan to be main focus of new Levelling Up bid

Heritage trams on display at Tramtown

Blackpool Tramtown's future depends on £1.6m appeal

The Hotel Indigo scheme was part of the bid

Disappointment at Blackpool's Levelling Up bid failure
Blackpool must bid for money for projects outside the town centre when it next seeks support from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund, it has been proposed.
Shelagh Parkinson

Artist's impression of the Hotel Indigo

Blackpool misses out on Levelling Up fund - leaving £7m gap in Hotel Indigo plan

Could £50m improve traffic congestion on Lancashire's roads, like at this regularly-clogged juinction on Ringwway in Preston?

Lancashire's £50m bid to improve transport in the county

The former Post Office

Blackpool makes new £20m funding bid to government

Each council area in Lancashire can make one bid to the Levelling Up Fund for every MPs whose constituency lies wholly within its borders - but is it that simple?

Lancashire MPs want fair access to "levelling up" cash for the county

The former Post Office on Abingdon Street

Post Office redevelopment among Blackpool plans to miss out on government cash

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