A scheme to redevelop Partington Sports Village has been granted £18m from the government’s Levelling Up Fund. The sports village, run by Trafford Leisure, already has an artificial outdoor football pitch chosen as an Olympic 2012 training venue for football and is currently the training ground for Salford City Football Club.
The cash will be spent developing facilities for the local community. It is one of more than 100 projects across the UK to receive a share of £2.1bn to create jobs and boost economic growth.
Some £672m has been earmarked to develop better transport links, a further £821m will kick-start regeneration and £594m to restore local heritage sites. Other successful bids include the Eden Project North in Morecambe (£50m), a new ‘multiversity’ in Blackpool (£40m).
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Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove said: “We are firing the starting gun on more than a hundred transformational projects in every corner of the UK that will revitalise communities that have historically been overlooked but are bursting with potential. This new funding will create jobs, drive economic growth, and help to restore local pride. We are delivering on the people’s priorities, levelling up across the UK to ensure that no matter where you are from, you can go as far as your talents will take you.”
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said: “This is a major down payment on local jobs, growth and regeneration, all part of our mission to level up opportunity across the country. To unlock more growth right across the country, we are making it easier for locally-elected leaders to make things happen without banging on a Whitehall door by extending devolution deals to all areas of England that want them by 2030.”
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