A plan to rebuild after coronavirus
We were making progress and huge strides in unlocking Redditch’s full potential – but we must now redouble our efforts in the wake of coronavirus.
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Category: Redditch Borough Council
Redditch to benefit from £1 million investment to unlock the town’s full potential
It’s been confirmed Redditch will receive £1 million from this fund to spend on projects across the town this year. This is an advance on the up to £25 million Town Deal Redditch was awarded in 2019.
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Statement on electric buses
“I will never apologise for being ambitious for Redditch.”
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Prime Minister’s New Deal critical to plans to revitalise and rebuild Redditch
In Dudley today (June 30th), Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out an ambitious economic strategy to rebuild Britain, putting jobs, skills and infrastructure investment at the heart of the Government’s economic recovery post-coronavirus.
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Rachel welcomes extra £105 million to keep rough sleepers off the streets
This additional funding will be used to support these rough sleepers and those at risk of homelessness into tenancies of their own, including through help with deposits for accommodation, and securing thousands of alternative rooms already available and ready for use, such as student accommodation.
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Redditch teams up with WMCA in bid for e-scooter trial
Working with Redditch Borough Council, Rachel was able to broker an alignment with the WMCA to submit an expression of interest bid to the Department for Transport to become a trial area that will include Redditch as part of their plans.
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Work on Redditch’s Town Deal bid continues
Last week, Redditch’s Town Deal Board met again to discuss the progress that had been made in developing the town’s bid to access the funding it has been allocated by the Government.
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Redditch receives funding boost to help high street recovery
Redditch will benefit from a new £50 million fund to support the town’s high street get safely...
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Rachel welcomes extra £12.4 million for local council services in Worcestershire
This extra £1.6 billion takes the total additional funding to councils through this crisis to over £3.2 billion – an unprecedented level of extra financial support in recent times.
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608 small businesses in Redditch receive Government coronavirus support
608 business properties in Redditch have already received grants as part of the Government’s Small Business Grants Scheme. In total, £7,145,000 has made its way to small businesses in the area.
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Rachel welcomes fall in rough sleeping in Redditch
The latest rough sleeping snapshot in England, which was published last Thursday (February 27th), found rough sleeping in the town is now at its lowest level in four years.
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Rachel issues rallying call ahead of inaugural Redditch Town Deal meeting
“We must seize this moment” – that’s the rallying call from Rachel ahead of the inaugural meeting of the Redditch Town Deal Board.
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