{"id":157704,"date":"2025-12-05T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=157704"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:27:15","slug":"uk-mayoral-funding-package-announce-homes-high-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/uk-mayoral-funding-package-announce-homes-high-streets\/157704\/","title":{"rendered":"UK mayoral funding package announced for homes and high streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Six regions will receive new mayors and a share of the mayoral funding package to build new homes and regenerate decaying high streets<\/h2>\n<p>The mayoral funding package will see each of the six regions receive up to \u00a3200m per year over the next 30 years to help build new homes and enhance communities.<\/p>\n<p>This will amount to an investment of nearly \u00a36bn shared among the regions.<\/p>\n<h3>These moves fall under the Devolution Priority Programme<\/h3>\n<p>The six areas set to receive a new mayor and access to the funding are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheshire and Warrington Combined Authority: \u00a321.7m per year<\/li>\n<li>Cumbria Combined Authority: \u00a311.1m per year<\/li>\n<li>Greater Essex Combined County Authority: \u00a341.5m per year<\/li>\n<li>Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority: \u00a344.6m per year<\/li>\n<li>Norfolk and Suffolk Combined County Authority: \u00a337.4m per year<\/li>\n<li>Sussex and Brighton Combined County Authority: \u00a338m per year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these regions will receive a minimum of \u00a33m over the next three years alongside a \u00a31m payment in the coming months. Four of these regions are already reorganising their local councils to be stronger unitary authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The other two areas already have unitary councils in place.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for devolution, faith and communities, Miatta Fahnbulleh MP, said: \u201cThis money will help transform communities for the better as part of our Plan for Change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will help new mayors achieve what their areas\u2019 want most, from building more of the 1.5m homes this government has promised to improving the green spaces that locals love &#8211; this is how devolution improves lives across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cCreating new homes at scale relies on close collaboration between local government and businesses\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Writing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/devolution-and-delivery-strategic-authorities-role-in-housing-and-skills-provision\/157135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBC Today last month<\/a>, Tim Reid, customer relationship director at NHBC, discussed devolution and whether it will have an impact on housing delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Tim wrote: \u201cContinuing the pattern of shifting decision making from Westminster to regions that took shape in the late 1990s, the aim is to empower local areas to deliver the changes needed on their doorsteps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the heart of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/news\/2025\/dec-2025\/academics-to-give-evidence-on-uk-overseas-territories-joint-declaration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> bill\u2019s<\/a> approach is the creation of strategic authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombined authorities such as those in West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, not to mention the Greater London Authority, already work to join up thinking in large regions with strong economic and cultural ties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, by providing them with greater powers and changing the structure of regional government more broadly, it is hoped that the resulting three-tiered strategic authority system will give local leaders extra leeway to drive growth throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what could the new proposals mean for the construction industry, and how might further devolution impact housing delivery and skills provision?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim continued: \u201cThe promises of greater speed and reduced red tape should be positive for private sector construction, yet their commitment will, of course, ultimately depend on their confidence in investing and wider market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreating new homes at scale relies on close collaboration between local government and businesses that can sometimes be difficult to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new UK mayoral funding package is being allocated to six regions which are having new mayors instated to direct the funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":157705,"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":[173155,276,572],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-devolution","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-housebuilding"},"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>UK mayoral funding package announced for homes and high streets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new UK mayoral funding package is being allocated to six regions which are having new mayors instated to direct the funds\" \/>\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\/uk-mayoral-funding-package-announce-homes-high-streets\/157704\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK mayoral funding package announced for homes and high streets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new UK mayoral funding package is being allocated to six regions which are having new mayors instated to direct the funds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/uk-mayoral-funding-package-announce-homes-high-streets\/157704\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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