Nottingham City Council would “absolutely not” be wasting its time by lodging a third bid to redevelop the city’s Broadmarsh Centre site, Government minister Michael Gove has insisted. The Labour-led authority has been unsuccessful with two previous applications to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund.
The council has twice asked for £20m to bring the derelict site back into use after the collapse of shopping giant Intu left a half-demolished structure falling into ruin. On Thursday (May 18) Mr Gove, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, said he aimed “to make sure every local authority has a fair shake of the sauce bottle”.
Intu had initially planned to demolish and rebuild the shopping centre as part of a major redevelopment in the southside of the city. The investment coupled with the city council ’s own redevelopment of the bus station site, which opened last summer alongside a new car park.
