Stalybridge has missed out on Levelling Up funding for the second time as Tameside leaders slam the bidding process as an ‘expensive postcode lottery’ and a ‘joke’.
Tameside council had hoped to claim nearly £36m for two projects to ‘level up’ the towns of Stalybridge and Denton from the total £4.8 billion Levelling Up fund.
The council had previously been awarded nearly £20m from the first round of the fund for works in Ashton-under-Lyne, but a proposal to improve Stalybridge was not successful.
