{"id":149219,"date":"2025-03-05T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=149219"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:11:06","slug":"plan-for-neighbourhoods-invest-1-5bn-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/plan-for-neighbourhoods-invest-1-5bn-communities\/149219\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan for Neighbourhoods to invest \u00a31.5bn into communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Government announced the plan as an attempt to rejuvenate failing high streets and communities<\/h2>\n<p>The latest aspect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-announced-plan-for-change-boost-infrastructure-construction\/147677\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan for Change<\/a>, the Plan for Neighbourhoods will invest the money into high streets, local parks, your clubs, cultural venues, libraries, and health and wellbeing services.<\/p>\n<p>75 communities have been selected, and new boards will be established for each to determine how the money is spent.<\/p>\n<h3>The Plan for Neighbourhoods is intended to improve deprived areas<\/h3>\n<p>The areas will receive up to \u00a320m each over the next decade to invest into community services, education, health, employment, and crime.<\/p>\n<p>The areas set to receive the funds are:<\/p>\n<h4>Scotland:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Arbroath<\/li>\n<li>Elgin<\/li>\n<li>Kirkwall (Orkney Islands)<\/li>\n<li>Peterhead<\/li>\n<li>Dumfries<\/li>\n<li>Irvine<\/li>\n<li>Kilmarnock<\/li>\n<li>Clydebank<\/li>\n<li>Coatbridge<\/li>\n<li>Greenock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/wales-to-get-100-million-to-restore-pride-in-neighbourhoods-and-boost-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wales:<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Barry<\/li>\n<li>Wrexham<\/li>\n<li>Rhyl<\/li>\n<li>Cwmbr\u00e2n<\/li>\n<li>Merthyr Tydfil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Northern Ireland:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Derry~Londonderry<\/li>\n<li>Coleraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>North East:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blyth<\/li>\n<li>Darlington<\/li>\n<li>Eston<\/li>\n<li>Hartlepool<\/li>\n<li>Jarrow<\/li>\n<li>Spennymoor<\/li>\n<li>Washington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>North West:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Accrington<\/li>\n<li>Ashton-Under-Lyne<\/li>\n<li>Burnley<\/li>\n<li>Chadderton<\/li>\n<li>Darwen<\/li>\n<li>Farnworth<\/li>\n<li>Heywood<\/li>\n<li>Kirkby<\/li>\n<li>Leigh<\/li>\n<li>Nelson<\/li>\n<li>Newton-le-Willows<\/li>\n<li>Rawtenstall<\/li>\n<li>Runcorn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Yorkshire and the Humber:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Barnsley<\/li>\n<li>Castleford<\/li>\n<li>Dewsbury<\/li>\n<li>Doncaster<\/li>\n<li>Keighley<\/li>\n<li>Rotherham<\/li>\n<li>Scarborough<\/li>\n<li>Scunthorpe<\/li>\n<li>Grimsby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>East Midlands:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston<\/li>\n<li>Carlton<\/li>\n<li>Chesterfield<\/li>\n<li>Clifton (Notts)<\/li>\n<li>Kirkby-in-Ashfield<\/li>\n<li>Mansfield<\/li>\n<li>Newark-on-Trent<\/li>\n<li>Spalding<\/li>\n<li>Worksop<\/li>\n<li>Skegness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>West Midlands:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Bedworth<\/li>\n<li>Bilston<\/li>\n<li>Darlaston<\/li>\n<li>Dudley<\/li>\n<li>Royal Sutton Coldfield<\/li>\n<li>Smethwick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>East of England:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Canvey Island<\/li>\n<li>Clacton-on-Sea<\/li>\n<li>Great Yarmouth<\/li>\n<li>King\u2019s Lynn<\/li>\n<li>Thetford<\/li>\n<li>Wisbech<\/li>\n<li>Harlow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>South East:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Bexhill-on-Sea<\/li>\n<li>Eastbourne<\/li>\n<li>Hastings<\/li>\n<li>Ramsgate<\/li>\n<li>Ryde<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>South West:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Torquay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Plan for Neighbourhoods is an evolution of the former Long-Term Plan for Towns, originally established by the previous Conservative government but reformed by the current Labour government.<\/p>\n<h3>Neighbourhood Boards will allow the communities themselves to be involved<\/h3>\n<p>Local residents, businesses, and grassroots campaigners will be a part of the investment process as a part of a new Neighbourhood Board that will be set up in each community. Mayors will take a leading role in town boards, devolving power from Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>Options will be given to the Boards, including road and pavement repairs, establishing community grocers, co-operatives, or neighbourhood watches, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy prime minister and secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, Angela Rayner, said: \u201cFor years, too many neighbourhoods have been starved of investment, despite their potential to thrive and grow. Communities across the UK have so much to offer \u2013 rich cultural capital, unique heritage but most of all, an understanding of their own neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do things differently, our fully funded Plan for Neighbourhoods puts local people in the driving seat of their potential, having control of where the Whitehall cash goes \u2013 what issues they want to tackle, where they want to regenerate and what growth they want turbocharged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minister for local growth and building safety, Alex Norris, said: \u201cWhen our local neighbourhoods thrive, the rest of the country thrives too. That\u2019s why we are empowering communities to take control of their futures and create the regeneration and growth they want to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Plan for Neighbourhoods we will deliver long-term funding that will bolster that inner community spirit in us all and relight the fires in corners of the UK that have for too long been left fighting for survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis, along with our ambitious reforms to streamline the planning system, devolve powers and strengthen workers\u2019 rights, will help get places and people thriving once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plan for Neighbourhoods has been announced, with \u00a31.5bn in investment across 75 local areas to boost high streets and healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":149220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[997,908,276],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-government"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Plan for Neighbourhoods to invest \u00a31.5bn into communities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Plan for Neighbourhoods has been announced, with \u00a31.5bn in investment across 75 local areas to boost high streets and healthcare\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/plan-for-neighbourhoods-invest-1-5bn-communities\/149219\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plan for Neighbourhoods to invest \u00a31.5bn into communities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Plan for Neighbourhoods has been announced, with \u00a31.5bn in investment across 75 local areas to boost high streets and healthcare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/plan-for-neighbourhoods-invest-1-5bn-communities\/149219\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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