Town hall chiefs are bidding for £40 million of government cash to ‘level up’ parts of Oldham which could see a business centre created to support green tech start-ups.
The council has applied to the Levelling Up fund with two bids of £20m each, covering the borough’s main parliamentary constituencies. The bid for Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency would see cash used to support the borough’s ‘green new deal’ commitment to being carbon neutral by 2030.
This would include the creation of a ‘Green Shoots Centre’ which would be a new business centre to support environment technology start-ups based at Rhodes Bank. If successful the money would also be used to develop a learning centre at the Northern Roots site, the project that will become the UK’s largest urban farm on land at Snipe Clough near Alexandra Park.
