Lancashire County ouncil has now announced a five-way split for the cash
Details have been revealed about how Lancashire will spend the £20m cash boost that comes with the county’s devolution deal. The agreement – originally struck with the previous Conservative government a year ago and since rubber-stamped by the new Labour administration – established a fund for what was described only as “innovation-led growth and net-zero ambitions”.
Meanwhile, Blackpool will see £4m head its way as a contribution to the development of a new town centre office for the Department for Work and Pensions, while the town will also get £4m for its Silicon Sands scheme to create a low-carbon data centre within the Blackpool Enterprise Zone It is hoped that the project – which will be powered by renewable energy – will kickstart a digital campus for high-performance companies.
“We have a whole pipeline of £22bn of projects that…we could absolutely deliver. Anybody who has close links to the Labour Party welcome to encourage that course of conversation for us,” County Cllr Riggott added. However, the county council may itself put in place such a mechanism for cash distributed to Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen councils, for which County Hall is not the lead authority delivering them. Grant funding agreements will ensure any conditions in the agreement between the MHCLG and the county council are implemented within each project.
Phil Riley, leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council, said the projects being funded “will start us on the journey of a new way of working with government for the benefit of the whole of Lancashire once the CCA is formally established”.
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