Levelling Up Fund

An artist's impression of the new Huddersfield Market. Credit: Kirklees Council

Huddersfield open market revamp set to go millions of pounds over budget
The cost of the regeneration of Huddersfield Market is set to go over its original budget by several millions of pounds.

The proposed site of the temporary market. Credit: Kirklees Council

Temporary market plan will keep traders ‘open for business’, says council

Councillor Kevin Foster at the site of the new Catterick Garrison town centre project.

Catterick Garrison town centre project on track to open next year

Bingley Pool October 2025

Bradford Council set to sell Bingley Pool deemed “not viable to keep”

The main pool under construction.

New swimming pool which has been years in the making ‘on schedule and on budget’

Canada House in Castlegate, Sheffield

£1m funding boost moves Sheffield’s Harmony Works project one step closer

Squire Lane artist's impression

Images show how Bradford's new leisure centre and swimming pool could look

Mountain biking at Parkwood Springs, Sheffield

Parkwood Springs and old Sheffield Ski Village: Moves to unlock the potential

Sir Simon Clarke Levelling Up secretary during Liz Truss's time as prime minister.

Exclusive Sir Simon Clarke says levelling up policy was 'a little performative'

The old Adelphi building in Sheffield's East End will be redeveloped as a cultural hub in Attercliffe, which is undergoing major regeneration work

Arts centre to be created in Grade II-listed former cinema and nightclub

Maltby Grammar Business Hub

Public tours announced at Maltby Grammar Hub in Rotherham

Keighley Advanced Robotics Training Centre

Advanced robotics centre could now be built on a major shopping street

Bingley Pool in May 2024

Yorkshire gym which costs the taxpayer £350 every visit set to close

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a community project visit to Accrington Market Hall in Lancashire. PIC: Christopher Furlong/PA Wire

The Government must simplify the levelling up funding system - Olivia Blake

Harrogate Convention Centre.

Government could help fund £49m redevelopment of Harrogate Convention Centre

The impressive glass-domed hall inside Canada House in Sheffield city centre, which as Harmony Works will house music teaching and performance spaces

Sheffield Castle: More money needed to transform city’s historic birthplace

61 Market Place, in Hull city centre. Picture is from Hull City Council

Historic building which has long stood vacant is set for a new lease of life

The 45212 'Black 5' steam train at Oakworth Station, on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Picture Tony Johnson

Work to rebuild bridge on historic Yorkshire railway line set to start next year

The former Lloyds Bank on the corner of George Street and Bond Street, Hull.

More than £7m to be spent on converting former bank into apartments

Dame Diana Johnson

Labour MP says ‘Canary Wharf-scale’ investment is needed to transform the North

Nick Fletcher pedestrian cycle complaint

MP claims pedestrianisation is reason for city centre footfall decline
A Doncaster MP has shared his concerns over decreasing footfall in the city centre, attributing it to the council’s planning.
Shannon Mower

Catterick Garrison

'No timescale' for when migrants will be moved to Catterick Garrison

Harrogate Convention Centre.

Levelling Up bid for the redevelopment of Harrogate’s convention centre failed

A young boy from Leeds pictured amongst the White Roses, in the Rose Garden at Temple Newsam, Leeds, for Yorkshire Day. PIC: Simon Hulme

Fairer funding formula urgently needed for Yorkshire - Ryan Swift

Further details on the third round of the Government’s flagship Levelling Up Fund are expected to be announced in the next few months.

Tory MPs set for pre-election campaign boost with levelling up cash in Spring

Parer Studio's Intrude captured by The Yorkshire Post photographer Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Photos and video show incredible light installation in Yorkshire city centre

A final proposal has been submitted to transform Sheffield's historic Castle site into a new events and social space.

How a major city gateway will be transformed into a new events arena

Seafront shopping centre could be transformed into cinema and food court

Seafront shopping centre could be transformed into cinema and food court

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove (second left), during a community visit to the Eden Project North in Morecambe, Lancashire.

Unfair fight for levelling up funding requires major rethink: The YP says

Easington, East Cleveland, where villagers are up in arms because bus services are cutting them off. PIC: Frank Reid

Stop cutting important bus services to rural areas - Jayne Dowle

Holly Lynch, the local Labour MP for Halifax, said: “Too many of its first-round projects have had to be paused or shelved because of spiralling costs."

Half a billion of funding lost from levelling up projects

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: Britain's Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons on January 18, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Yorkshire to get half the funding of Tory-held South East
The South East of England has been given almost twice as much funding as Yorkshire through the Government’s scheme to level up neglected areas of the country.
Mason Boycott-Owen

Yarm High Street (Credit: Teespix Photos/LDRS)

Last chance to have your say on improvements to market town's high street

Andalus Community Centre

Bosses behind plan to create sculpture park will not take over community centre

Katie Kavanagh is among those involved with the programme. Picture: Fiona Finchett

New Yorkshire hires to tackle local government 'skills crisis'

Rotherham town centre.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe
27th May 2020.

How Skills Street will provide a boost for South Yorkshire's economy

Grade II-listed Richard Dunn Sports Centre – which is absent from a recent masterplan of the Odsal area

Mystery over future of Grade II-listed Richard Dunn Sports Centre

Alan Mak MP.

As Levelling Up Fund applications close, Ministers remains committed - Alan Mak

The Hearth building

New bakery, bar and restaurant to open in 18th-century building in Hull Old Town

A visitor walks along the Berlin Wall memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Picture: Carsten Koall/Getty.

German example should be followed to level up the North of England - Dan Jarvis

St James' Baths

Fitness and spa operators 'interested' in re-opening Doncaster's St James' Baths

The Leeds City Region is set to see funding drop, new analysis has suggested.

North 'set to lose out on £300m' as regional economic funding drops after Brexit

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove

Michael Gove urged to explain Levelling Up White Paper 'hold up'

The stables are Grade I-listed

Wentworth Woodhouse to turn stables into cafe and hospitality training school

Scarborough Council is aiming to win more Government cash through the Towns Fund.

Scarborough Council spends over £1m on consultants to assist Towns Fund bids

Scarborough Council was the biggest spender on external consultants as it sought to win grants from the Towns Fund for the area. Picture: Gary Longbottom

Yorkshire councils spend £3m on consultants in bids to win 'levelling up' cash

St James' Baths closed in 2013

Abandoned 1930s swimming pool in Doncaster to be restored thanks to Levelling Up

Chancellor Rishi Sunak pictured in North Yorkshire in June 2020. Picture: James Hardisty

Legal challenge to £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund highlights Sunak's constituency

Rural communities should have the chance to shape their own destiny, a new report has said

Rural communities should be given chance to shape their own destiny, says report

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (C) assists in an engine repair at the Automotive shop during a visit to Kirklees College Springfield Sixth Form Centre in Dewsbury, northern England on June 18, 2021. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / POOL / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Why the Government's levelling up funds may not improve the North's fortunes

Are rural areas under-funded?

How Lords reform can empower rural areas – Yorkshire Post Letters

Jolyon Maugham, founder of the Good Law Project. Photo: Good Law Project

Government's Levelling Up Fund priority list 'unlawful', campaign group claims

Baroness Wilcox of Newport. Photo: UK Parliament

Funds only act to 'level up Conservative Party's electoral prospects', says peer

Northallerton high street. Pic by Tony Johnson

North Yorkshire's leaders urged to collaborate to access 'levelling up' funds

Pictured Buttertubs Pass between Hawes and Swaledale, one of the famous photographed landmarks of the Yorkshire Grand Depart, Tour de France. Pic: James Hardisty

Why the £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund's focus on car journeys favours rural Yorkshire

Sheffield City Region mayor Dan Jarvis said it "beggared belief" that Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire constituency was put in a higher priority category than Sheffield and Barnsley in the Government's flagship 4.8bn Levelling Up Fund. Pic by PA

'You're favouring the affluent over the deprived', metro mayor warns Rishi Sunak

Chancellor Rishi Sunak pictured last year in Northallerton

Rishi Sunak to extend job-saving furlough scheme to end of September

Sheffield City Region metro mayor Dan Jarvis

Yorkshire metro mayor's 'smoke and mirrors' claim over vital recovery funds

How can cities like Leeds best recover from the Covid pandemic?

Five ways to power up North in 2021 after virus – Jonathan Webb

Grant Shapps has set out the progress made on the Northern Powerhouse in the past year.

How North will be powered up in 2021 – Grant Shapps

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