Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership have been awarded £7,741,247 out of a £50m pot shared between Local Enterprise Partnerships across the West Midlands.
The £50m of Government funding is to help with key infrastructure projects.
Examples of eligible projects include new infrastructure for development sites and access improvements to unlock the potential of new commercial space and homes.
The money has been awarded as part of the £500m Growing Places Fund, which is designed to kick-start local economies by stimulating stalled projects and in turn, creating new jobs.
The breakdown of awards across the region is
- Black Country – £9,786,886
- Coventry and Warwickshire – £8,671,398
- Greater Birmingham and Solihull – £15,211,198
- Stoke and Staffordshire – £7,741,247
- The Marches ““ Shropshire, Herefordshire, Telford and Wrekin – £5,531,035
- Worcestershire – £3,727,486
So stoke gets even more money to waste, while thousands have to live in crap 19th century terraced houses with no impromement grant money available. You just kmow this money will end up in the pocket of millionairs like the boss of Pertemps and putting up yet more CCTV. “Criminalise the poor and pull their pathetic houses” is the real motto of the secretive self-serving council cabinet.