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The first round of the Levelling Up Fund was announced in October 2021 and saw 105 projects benefit from the first £1.7bn of the overall £4.8bn pie. These
Hopes were raised in the summer, when the council was asked to submit a more detailed business case to the Department for Communities and Local Government. But now it has emerged Lynn s scheme was not among the 72 bids which were successful.
Graham Middleton, the council s cabinet member for business development, said: It s incredibly disappointing, a lot of hard work has gone into it, we put a plan together which was endorsed by the community.
Graham Middleton, West Norfolk council s cabinet member for business development
- Credit: Chris Bishop The projects we had were good projects. If you look at some of the towns that were successful, their projects weren t a million miles from what we were trying to do.