The new Long Term Plan for towns

The government has announced the first 55 towns across the UK to benefit from our new £1 billion Long-term Plan for Towns, levelling up left behind towns as we deliver a brighter future for the UK. 

  • 55 towns will benefit from our new £1.1 billion endowment fund to deliver our long-term plan to regenerate left behind towns.
  • The Long-Term Plan for Towns  will allocate a ten-year endowment-style fund of £20 million to be spent on local people’s priorities, like regenerating local high streets and town centres, improving transport and securing public safety.
  • This long-term commitment will allow towns to plan for their future, rather than the end of the financial year.
Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, said: 


"Towns are the place most of us call home and where most of us go to work. But politicians have always taken towns for granted and focused on cities.  

The result is the half-empty high streets, run-down shopping centres and anti-social behaviour that undermine many towns’ prosperity and hold back people’s opportunity – and without a new approach, these problems will only get worse.  

That changes today. Our Long-Term Plan for Towns puts funding in the hands of local people themselves to invest in line with their priorities, over the long-term. That is how we level up."

Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove added:    

"We know that in our towns the values of hard work and solidarity, common sense and common purpose, endeavour and quiet patriotism have endured across generations. But for too long, too many of our great British towns have been overlooked and undervalued.  

We are putting this right through our Long-Term Plan for Towns backed by over £1 billion of levelling up funding.   

This will empower communities in every part of the UK to take back control of their future, taking long term decisions in the interests of local people. It will mean more jobs, more opportunities and a brighter future for our towns and the people who live and work in them."

The first 55 towns to benefit are:
 
Mansfield 
Boston 
Worksop 
Skegness 
Newark-on-Trent 
Chesterfield 
Clifton (Nottingham) 
Spalding 
Kirkby-in-Ashfield 
Clacton-on-Sea 
Great Yarmouth 
Eston 
Jarrow 
Washington 
Blyth (Northumberland) 
Hartlepool 
Spennymoor 
Darwen 
Chadderton 
Heywood 
Ashton-under-Lyne 
Accrington 
Leigh (Wigan) 
Farnworth 
Nelson (Pendle) 
Kirkby 
Burnley 
Hastings 
Bexhill-on-Sea 
Ryde 
Torquay 
Smethwick 
Darlaston 
Bilston (Wolverhampton) 
Dudley (Dudley) 
Grimsby 
Castleford 
Doncaster 
Rotherham 
Barnsley 
Scunthorpe 
Keighley 
Dewsbury 
Scarborough 
Merthyr Tydfil 
Cwmbrân 
Wrexham 
Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) 
Greenock 
Irvine 
Kilmarnock 
Coatbridge 
Clydebank 
Dumfries 

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