The Mayor of Bristol claims Downing Street has broken promises made to Bristol to fund a massive regeneration scheme around Temple Meads, after it was left off a list of projects in the so-called ‘Levelling Up’ agenda.
Marvin Rees said the Temple Quarter scheme had the backing of Government departments and that people in Downing Street had told him personally it was an ‘absolute banker of a scheme’, but an expected £100m investment to kick-start the work has not materialised.
That was despite ‘a constant, constant stream of promises from Government’ that the money would come and the deal could be done, he said.
